Tom's Cuttings
Artist
Philip Heying
(American, born 1959)
Date2012
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 22 1/16 x 27 1/4 inches (56.04 x 69.22 cm)
Sheet: 24 1/16 x 29 15/16 inches (61.12 x 76.04 cm)
Sheet: 24 1/16 x 29 15/16 inches (61.12 x 76.04 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2013.9.9
SignedSigned on the back of the sheet, center, in pencil "Philip Heying"
InscribedInscribed on the back of the sheet, upper right, in pencil "Cuttings (later) / This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, / Cut stems struggling to put down feet, / What stain strained so much, / Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life? / I can hear, underground that sucking and sobbing, / In my veins, in my bones it feel it -- / The small waters seeping upward, / The tight grains parting at last. / When sprouts break out, / Slippery as fish, / I quail, lean to beginnings, / sheath-wet. / Theodore Roethke "
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 1/10
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DescriptionImage of three mason jars with sapplings growing in water.Copyright© Philip Heying
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