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Breathing Underwater (The Art Monographs)
Breathing Underwater - The Art Monographs Author:Lisa Davidson, Ralph Petty The newest addition to Sylph?s series The Art Monographs, Breathing Underwater tells of a duplicitous world in which dream may become nightmare, and beauty terror, in the blink of an eye. This is a realm of shifting shapes and organic forms, saturated with a surfeit of life that seems variously splendid and miraculous, ruthless and inevitable. T... more »he natural world features strongly; we encounter storm-beaten trees, tired butterflies and panicked sheep. Yet the human world is never far away, a relentless presence that changes and exhausts all that comes into contact with it.
In this intensely intimate conversation between poet and artist, Lisa Davidson?s texts find a haunting echo in Ralph Petty?s dream-like ink wash drawings. Breathing Underwater reveals the convergence of two minds on one theme, discovering in each drawing-poem pair the rich cross-pollination between the visual and the verbal.« less