Actual/Potential Matter

By Jade Forrester

Screen versus pigment
binary versus chance
fieldwork versus now
precision as deceptor,

Light and space
Irwin and the Californians
lines drawn between time and forms
extending outward on their own search.

Suspension and refraction
common threads found
Rhythms of patterns
Rhythms of patterns; interrupted.

Surface versus depth
luminescence in focus,
unstoppable, it disperses and dissipates
along its own laws.

The hidden hand,
the known systems,
the affect of presence,
the misinterpreted,
lost and gained.

A rusted wash
protecting our own rhythms
an acknowledgment of the real:
Us as physical, as objects, as machines.

Light now hovering
contained and controlled
but infiltrating as light does
not a dense collider.

The flexibility of the concrete
at its core
opens the possibility of making the new old,
and the old newer.

Levity versus weight
reflecting the subject
not strident;
flowing around.