Artist
Charisse Pearlina Weston(American, born 1988)American, born 1988
CultureAmerican
Titles
- I am moored along the soft, shored unity of impatient ruin
Date2021
MediumEnfolded glass etched with text
Dimensions5 1/4 × 32 5/8 × 14 7/16 in. (13.3 × 82.8 × 36.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded anonymously
Object number2022.34
Non exposé
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
Exhibition HistoryCharisse Pearlina Weston: Through: The Fold, The Shatter. New York: Recess. March 2nd- April 13th, 2021
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The work is inscribed with text from Weston’s forthcoming book, Waiting (2022). The excerpt reproduced below is found on the object:
he is not well and all that matters is that
he is for well. Not ever well
Or maybe he is and I, in so believing
in a kind of breath that does not need breaking,
am not. I do think of him often. I am plagued for it.
For him and for others, for me and
no! Do not touch me. No, touch me, [gently].
I want to drench the earth
with my viscous soul
hung in air by wire fuses,
I want yours reflected
I want everything I know
I cannot have in abundance
because I know myself, I know myself this self
of the horizon line who cradles
"I am moored along the soft,
shored unity of impatient ruin"
against a gathered throat as distance induced by silence.
he is not well and all that matters is that
he is for well. Not ever well
Or maybe he is and I, in so believing
in a kind of breath that does not need breaking,
am not. I do think of him often. I am plagued for it.
For him and for others, for me and
no! Do not touch me. No, touch me, [gently].
I want to drench the earth
with my viscous soul
hung in air by wire fuses,
I want yours reflected
I want everything I know
I cannot have in abundance
because I know myself, I know myself this self
of the horizon line who cradles
"I am moored along the soft,
shored unity of impatient ruin"
against a gathered throat as distance induced by silence.
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