{"id":3118,"date":"2015-02-01T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2016-10-25T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T02:25:50","slug":"watch-your-ankles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"watch your ankles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the room, the\u00a0piece sets itself\u00a0in motion. I see it easily, like it already was,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor1.31-studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3131 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor1.31-studio-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DanaMajor1.31 studio\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor1.31-studio-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor1.31-studio.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0float my idea of it away, paper on water, making only the next aspect.<\/p>\n<p>It shows itself to me with tricks of time, and drawing lessons given by imaginary illustrated hands in midair. \u00a0It shows me something easy, that works. \u00a0I find a circle of light where I wouldn\u2019t have expected, and trace its surprising source, another new feature.<\/p>\n<p>the piece and the screen and the page and the screen and the wire and the wireless and the light, workity work in fourth gear,\u00a0returned from a visit to\u00a0the <a title=\"preparator's shop\" href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?page_id=3137\" target=\"_blank\">preparator&#8217;s shop<\/a>,\u00a0where I was invited\u00a0to see a spectacular <a title=\"george rickey small sculpture image search\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=george+rickey+small+sculpture&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=612&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=F1rOVJnuEcyrNsmbgbgD&amp;ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ\" target=\"_blank\">George Rickey<\/a> sculpture\u00a0presently being refurbished. It had six spinning hinges. How can the sculpture so very metal, with carefully cut sheets of brass, and hollow steel rods thin as feather spines, threaded and cold fabricated, whirl absolutely silently? \u00a0In a very detailed arrangement\u00a0with the basic forces of nature: \u00a0gravity, momentum.<\/p>\n<p>I walk back into my studio, tracers of the little sculpture eddying in my vision, and find the\u00a0studio stage-like, my empty chair and rolling cart frozen in a half-formed scene,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-studiostage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3142\" src=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-studiostage-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DanaMajor studiostage\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-studiostage-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-studiostage-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-studiostage.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I look at\u00a0the <a title=\"the sketch\" href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-sketch1.29.15.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">sketch<\/a> that muse says I am referring to for some aspects of the piece, but not others. I won\u2019t be able to tell the difference except when I\u2019m sculpting. I will only be able to tell it from the work. \u00a0\u2018git to it,\u2019 machine says.<\/p>\n<p>Every element is working, every aspect of this piece has a function, there is no Sunday hat, sweet jesus. \u00a0allow beauty rather than manufacture it. \u00a0the next step shows itself to me bon vivant, through the first one.<\/p>\n<p>Unhurried except as I say so myself, I\u2019m given, not that I ever ask, I\u2019m given the picture of premonition, the untaught, a priori, every way of knowing except linear and three dimensional and going one meager direction in time. \u00a0Dreaming myself, I think of every eye to be and how it\u2019ll take me forever.<\/p>\n<p>Why waste a breath making sense in small ways?<\/p>\n<p>Does it <em>hold<\/em> its shape as an object? \u00a0made from the illumination and the shadows. And the shape of the caster\/the physical body not necessarily made in its image.<\/p>\n<p>I see it now. I see its arch through the ceiling, its wiry body, each mark as spare as the first, balanced pieces.\u00a0\u00a0the work enters and I find a way, at long and so last, to still say by deciding, or by letting, invisible, weightless, creations undyed by reality.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the object. \u00a0to this righteous thing. \u00a0Laptop will get cotton-screen. Its only hope \u00a0will be to keep current with the pictures so I can look at the piece that way, it wants to talk to me like that, not with words, but with\u00a0sculpted shadows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3151\" src=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DanaMajor shadow2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By stopping time the photograph does what the viewer cannot. reflection. I lean back in my swivel chair gazing into the first flank of the work, wondering what you would call it. better not to name it, like the epic.<\/p>\n<p>Shift in perspective. A miracle is a shift in perspective. \u00a0The sculpted baffles, just hellfire like the bent brass sheeting hellfire on the george rickey sculpture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3152\" src=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DanaMajor shadow1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DanaMajor-shadow1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the room, the\u00a0piece sets itself\u00a0in motion. I see it easily, like it already was, and\u00a0float my idea of it away, paper on water, making only the next aspect. It shows itself to me with tricks of time, and drawing lessons given by imaginary illustrated hands in midair. \u00a0It shows me something easy, that works. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=3118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">watch your ankles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}