Culture Making items tagged diorama Culture Making:Main column content 2012-02-03T04:45:04Z Copyright (c) 2012, Nate Barksdale ExpressionEngine tag:culture-making.com,2012:02:03 Untitled, by Joseph Cornell tag:culture-making.com,2012:author/9.1505 2012-02-03T13:00:03Z 2012-02-03T04:45:04Z Nate Barksdale natebarksdale@gmail.com Nate: “This morning's reading: an Octavio Paz poem, translated by Elizabeth Bishop. 'Objects & Apparitions, For Joseph Cornell.' Here's a pair of stanzas to whet the appetite:

'"One has to commit a painting," said Degas,
"the way one commits a crime." But you constructed
boxes where things hurry away from their names.

Slot machine of visions,
condensation flask for conversations,
hotel of crickets and constellations.'”
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Untitled (13 1/8 x 10 x 3 1/2 in; private collection), by Joseph Cornell, 1942
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