How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?,
Wallace Stevens, The Blue Guitar, 1937
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The guy in the psychedelic shirt seems at home in this version of the Central District’s Spring Street, where the double stairs, the empty garage and the nearby houses are “folded over, turned round.” Like the poet’s blue guitar, “things as they are /Are changed” when art happens: tourists will look in vain for this version in any real world. The painter hopes that her audience will enjoy these fictional spaces, explore them with “clandestine steps upon imagined stairs.”
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?,
Wallace Stevens, The Blue Guitar, 1937