Thank you
from Against Which, 2006
Ross Gay, American born 1974

 

 

 

If you find yourself half naked

and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing,

 

Reflective foil on hardboard, 1969.

Hans Haacke, German born 1936, active US. Loaned by the artist and his gallery to the New Museum, NY. It reflects the grass mound below.

 

again, the earth’s great, sonorous 

 

 

Grass grows,1967-69, earth and grass.

Hans Haacke, German born 1936, active US.  Loaned to the New Museum in 2019 by the artist and his gallery.

Thought to be the first of the ‘Earth art’: the artist grew grass from seed in a mound of earth which he placed in a gallery in Ithaca, NY.  Reflected in the foil above.

 

moan that says

you are the air of the now and gone, that says

 

 

Everything #2.3, 2003; photograph photocopied on graph paper and sanded with sand paper. Adrian Piper, American born 1948. Private loan to MOMA, NY in 2018

Everything #2.8, 2003

Adrian Piper, American born 1948. Private loan to MOMA, NY in 2018

 

all you love will turn to dust,

and will meet you there, do not

raise your fist.  Do not raise

your small voice against it.  And do not

take cover.  Instead, curl your toes

 

 

a variety of Spring crocus, Winterthur, Delaware

 

into the grass, watch the cloud

ascending from your lips. 

 

The Metro station at 53rd and Lexington Avenue, NY exhales this magnificence one level below street level. Artist TBD

 

                                                                     Walk

through the garden’s dormant splendor

 

 

March 29, 2025 at Winterthur, DE. Siberian squill and an early variety of daffodil are on the ground. 

 

Say only, thank you.

Thank you.

 

 

An approach through the pinetum to the Winterthur Museum.  The blue is Siberian squill.  March 29, 2025

 

 

Winterthur is the legacy of Henry Francis du Pont, American, 1880-1969.