Greg Edmonson lives in the studio next door and generally laughs sardonically and is never short on great music.
Here’s an improvised photo+word=poem dedicated to his paintings.
Curvilinear
lines that curve
seem flat when you are walking along them
ants don’t notice they’re circling the perimeter of the mug
we always know when the lines are broken
each of our lots are mostly the same
with little variations in area and perimeter
under different lights of day
i see you, neighbor
i like that your world is made of dots, too
you are a painter who won’t paint over terrazzo tiles
just because there is so much more space
between the darker spots
doesn’t mean they don’t contain a triangle
and sometimes what you thought was a fork in the road
because you’re just a little ant-dot in the world
turns out to be a cul de sac
but you went down every path
and brought us back a map.
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all paintings by Greg Edmonson
wordings by Jeanette Powers
