This stillness to which all returns, this is reality...

I cup my hands in water, splash water on empty space   

water drunk by empty space

Look what thoughts will do   Look what words will do   

from nothing to the face

Randall Exon

 I take the green of everything coming to life, it grows &   

 climbs into empty space 

Albert Reuss 






Carlos San Millan






 Mary Cassatt 

Turn yourself inside out and you might disappear   

you have a new definition...




Gwen John


  (detail)

Andrea Kowch (detail)

I want the brown of this floor to rise up into empty space   

Take the floor apart to find the brown,

bind it up again under spell of empty space

I want to take this old wall apart I am rich in my mind thinking   

of this, I am thinking of putting makeup on empty space   

Everything crumbles around empty space

David Alison





Fernand Toussaint


Alfred Stevens 

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title - P. Matthiessen
all lines from a poem 'Makeup on Empty Space' by Anne Waldman