Created for Professor Okore's Sculptural Practices class assignment "Box-Poem Project: an Ecology of Form".
Inspiration drawn from the selected poem by Annie Freud found below (taken from The Remains by Annie Freud).
8.5”x8”x4.5”
Inspiration drawn from the selected poem by Annie Freud found below (taken from The Remains by Annie Freud).
8.5”x8”x4.5”
The Room That Isn’t There
for Jacqui Saphra
Sometimes I dream I’m in a room that isn’t there.
The many years I’ve lived here and not noticed it before –
an unexpected boon! Such blessed emptiness!
It’s going to change my life. What shall I use it for?
And grey the morning comes; I wake. The rooms are
as they were, each one with its function and its mess.
And all this time, it dwells behind the door, a simulacrum
of my mind, my womb, my unlived life, my life to come . . .
or could it be life’s end that brings me here, treading
its naked boards, sitting at a table on a wooden chair,
and rushing to the window to take in the view,
the trees outside, the Spring, the blossom on the grass.