Casey Jex Smith
Qurom and Their Corresponding Black Matter
22" x 22"
pen cil and color pencil on paper
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yin xiuzhen', Portable City - - Berlin, 2002
yin xiuzhen', Portable City - - Berlin, 2002
Casey Jex Smith
Serpent in my Garden, 2005
(Pen & ink on paper)
[IV]
L’incamminamento ai fondi marini
e le disfrenate,
sovrastanti vegetazioni per tante ore rischiarano,
incutono il connotato dolce. Si trova
un fenomeno di neve nitida, il denso
nelle piene di bosco.
Come se, in quante ombre ferma
l’acquazzone, iniziassero
da ogni parte
le materie eruttive,
e attorniato dal cuore di getti: ed il rumore distanzia.
Al di là i campi remoti abbagliano
i passi, danno
su rami tranquilli,
dove forse si potranno indicare, forse no.
[Casey Jex Smith, Whom seekest thou?, 2006 (Pen & ink, marker, charcoal, and color pencil on paper).]
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[Casey Jex Smith, Scrawl, 2006 (Pen & ink, marker, and color pencil on paper).]
[Casey Jex Smith, Have no fear..., 2005]
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"With your childhood flames on your
With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row,
And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go,
And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show,
Who among them do you think would employ you?
Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole
With your holy medallion which your fingertips fold,
And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul,
Oh, who among them do you think could destroy you."
(Bob Dylan, Sad-eyed Lady of the
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1 [a].
Si conchiude l'ovale infantile degli
effluvi di taciturno
i perlaceolibrati abolendo
ibridivarchi e colonnari
involge
focolari gemelli a bacche di buio
nelle trame vezzose che sommergono
la nuca. Il femmineo
si sfalda in stanze,
dissuase di gelido e dileguate
alla linea estenuata
di un'impressione di nitido.
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[Casey Jex Smith, Heaven’s Floodgates Open, 2005 (Pen & ink on paper).]
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[Casey Jex Smith, The Spirit of Elijah, 2005 (Colored pencil, marker, and pen & ink on paper).]
[Casey Jex Smith, Study after The Purifiers Fire, 2005 (Colored pencil, marker, and pen & ink on paper).]
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[Casey Jex Smith, Through Three Corners, 2005 (Pen & ink, marker, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper).]