Like Most Revelations
(after Morris Louis)
It is the movement that incites the form, discovered as a downward rapture—yes, it is the movement that delights the form, sustained by its own velocity. And yet it is the movement that delays the form while darkness slows and encumbers; in fact it is the movement that betrays the form, baffled in such toils of ease, until it is the movement that deceives the form, beguiling our attention—we supposed it is the movement that achieves the form. Were we mistaken? What does it matter if it is the movement that negates the form? Even though we give (give up) ourselves to this mortal process of continuing, it is the movement that creates the form.
From Like Most Revelations, by Richard Howard, published by Pantheon Books. Copyright © 1994 by Richard Howard. Used with permission.