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UNICA ZURN. Untitled.
Dark Spring, The Drawing Center
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"The wonder is- given the errant nature of freedom and the burgeoning of texture in time- the wonder is that all the forms are not monsters, that there is beauty at all, grace gratuitous, pennies found, like mockingbird's free fall. Beauty itself is the fruit of the creator's exuberance that grew such a tangle, and the grotesques and horrors bloom from that same free growth, that intricate scramble and twine up and down the conditions of time."
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"The creation in the first place, being itself, is the only necessity, for which I would die, and I shall. The point about that being, as I know it here and see it, is that, as I think about it, it accumulates in my mind as an extravagance of minutieae. The sheer fringe and network of detail assumes primary importance. That there are so many details seems to be the most important and visible fact about the creation. ... If the world is gratuitious, then the fringe of a goldish's fin is a million times more so. The first question- the one crucial one- on the creation of the universe and the existence of something as a sign and an affront to nothing, is a blank one. "
from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, A Dillard
Dark Spring, The Drawing Center
**
"The wonder is- given the errant nature of freedom and the burgeoning of texture in time- the wonder is that all the forms are not monsters, that there is beauty at all, grace gratuitous, pennies found, like mockingbird's free fall. Beauty itself is the fruit of the creator's exuberance that grew such a tangle, and the grotesques and horrors bloom from that same free growth, that intricate scramble and twine up and down the conditions of time."
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"The creation in the first place, being itself, is the only necessity, for which I would die, and I shall. The point about that being, as I know it here and see it, is that, as I think about it, it accumulates in my mind as an extravagance of minutieae. The sheer fringe and network of detail assumes primary importance. That there are so many details seems to be the most important and visible fact about the creation. ... If the world is gratuitious, then the fringe of a goldish's fin is a million times more so. The first question- the one crucial one- on the creation of the universe and the existence of something as a sign and an affront to nothing, is a blank one. "
from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, A Dillard
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