Reconnoitering the extent of Picasso's erratic styles, his art "oscillat(ing)
between a 'boundless past' and a 'boundless future,'" Alberto Giacometti
had been dead seven years when one cold night news of Picasso's death
rode on radio waves into my remote cabin anchored to a mountain's side.

Picasso had spent his life living in the shadow of his genius, and how
brilliant were the embers glowing in my wood stove kindling what had
remained unconscious until decades later, when in a dream—

There was a tree living with a deep gash in its side.
Someone said, "It’s the entrance to another world."
"I thought, it opens into this world too.”

Living between worlds, is
what will someday be our
"long address."

 

 

reconnoitering the extent: “Giacometti destroyed constantly: drawings were crumpled up, paintings scraped off, then begun, then scraped off again—a practice virtually unknown to Picasso, who became convinced early on that everything he touched carried some imperishable imprint of his genius." M. Peppiatt, In Giacometti's Studio. New Haven CT, 2010.
oscillat(ing) between: J. Genet: Quoted in, G. Lazare, "Thief in the Studio: Genet and Giacometti." Inventory, Feb. 1996.
long address: "We live on Earth, which is in the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is part of a small cluster of galaxies called the Local Group, which is on the edge of the Virgo cluster, a conglomeration of several thousand galaxies…From all of this has emerged what some astronomers call our ‘long address’” D. Overbye, “Beyond the Milky Way A Galactic Wall.” The New York Times, July 10, 2020.