With Strings

Richard Tuttle & Charles Bernstein

2000-2001

constructed for the Poetry Plastique Show

The sculpure consists of the every letter in the first line of the poem, strung on
brass tubing into a terra cotte base that is filled with lines of the poem. The full
text of the poem is pasted in strips along the perimeter of each letter, so that
each letter is also a medium for the entire poem (or that part of it that would fit).

with strings
                                        asmall(orlarge)machinemadeofwords-wcw

cuspofwispgrownoldtoplayamuckamuckmusicthedisaster
forIhavehoppedtoaccord&blemishminestorust
cursortobedbug
stillserveswhosandssameassavor
succorpunchonthebackballbingostiletto
survivororethosofneither&arrivedaroundangleofvocationaldependence
I'manangletoimpartattheFreshMeadowinterloopthatlets
frivolityfavorantecedentgush& uminate
forIhaveravagedwildburlap&serenadedthelostlancet
giveme agurglefromwhichtohurdle&Iwilltruckmycaresintoporesthatglare
noticingthebuckledinabilitytowardlabileincontinencerainmentaside hiccup
fondlethebundleyoubungle

Clicking on the fingernail images on the main page of the site
provides a set of small images of the piece. Larger, more
detailed images, are also available:

View 1 (overview)
View 2 (detail of embedded line of text)
View 3 (detail of letter "I")
View 4 ("USPO" from "cusp of"
View 5 (view from the top)
View 6 (overview)
View 7 (overview)
View 8 (overview)
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Installation Views: One, Two, Three (with Tuttle and Bernstein, Feb. 7, 2001)

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