Dear Wordy Mind - Postscript '89 | 2024-292.1

Elisa Tan

Dear Wordy Mind - Postscript '89 | 2024-292.1

1989

One in a series of nine cards. Contains a photograph and a poem on a handmade book from envelope paper.

This first piece is different from the others in the series. This one is wrapped in book plastic cover. It also has an extra photo of the piece inserted in between. It has sticky tape on the back corners, but this seems to be inserted after. Some of the booklets do not have this photo ( from Booklet No. 7)
The words in the poem:

From Unknown to Unknown
life travels

the enveloping landscape of wordy mind

beneath, beyond
and
above all
words fail me.

but even it talks

I laugh as I reach for more
well-wrapped sweets

words
words
words

p.2

envelope
container
containment

transversing

"mistic" horizon of probability


in between

presence absence
folding unfolding
giving, receiving, tearing, discrading, preserving


polarities in flux
disrupting, constructing
complementing


threshold of conciousness
dreams
great
earth

p.3

in this space
where sun is felt
inspite of rain
I pause for strength



Looking back, I counted 25 addresses
along the zigzag road of 19 years
(not to mention hotels and forgotten places)

friends have come and gone, some stay
I keep their envelopes

emptied of letters
of words
of vessicitudes
of weights


soaring light
surpassing vibrant blue
clear quiet sky of solitude

for a moment
I feel like Yeats
"Blessed and could bless"


at
the
end
of life's journey


by
the
gate called Death
paint it black, white or whatever you like


no matter

shredded words
upon
quantum bridge

this envelope shall take wings
a container no more

but
a containment
destined

2024-292.1

2024-292.1

Ink on board

20.2 cm x 28.5 cm

20.2 cm x 28.5 cm

No

There is molding under the plastic cover of the piece, across the front and back. The artwork is in very good condition otherwise.

Excellent

Good

Excellent

Excellent

Board

Discoloration, Mould

There is molding the general surface of the front of the work, under the plastic cover. There is also a but of tape residue on the back. Support is in good condition otherwise.

No

Elisa Tan Residence, Bakakeng, Baguio City

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