14TH WAY

Program
Arts and Culture
Media
paper, thread, metal, wood
Year
2007
Location
deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Gallery

14th Way

Among twenty snowy mountains,

The only moving thing

Was the eye of the blackbird.

stanza 1, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Wallace Stevens

Fourteenth Way bridges the worlds of poetry and sculpture, and was created for ‘Trainscapes’, an exhibit where working model trains travelled through a succession of unique sculptural vignettes.

2300 threads are suspended in space. Over 3000 paper letters flutter in the ambient air currents. Text is snowing. A blackbird hovers, casting a shadow (void) on the implied mountainscape below. The bottommost elements aggregate into passages from Stevens’ classic poem.