Cordelia Hanemann
Abstraction: Geometry of an Odalisk Frantisek Kupka's studies of "Girl with a Ball" for "Fugue"
the girl plays with the ball until she doesn't; the ball is a ball until it isn't; disappearing into circles and spheres, a fugal defiguration --her body shrinks to the flatness of lines on a page, a girl still, flat-chested, virginal, untested, approached, broached by the artist's eye, --until she isn't, until she's curved shapes, a geometry of lines, swaths of nude-blue color--appropriated--carved by a vital pulse of orange, colors drawn from a palette of repressed urgencies-- no one need know about the girl or the ball or the breath; what can we know of a young girl's playing naked in the summer air?
Althea Romeo-Mark
Lord, Take the Rein
They sit in the first pew in the row on the right — young women whose skin are shades of dark fudge, caramel, pale brown sugar. Their dresses bright as sunrise, the orange glow of sunset, verdant tropical grass and lime, sky and ocean-blue, and teal. Their tiny hats contrast with barely restrained breasts. Short skirts must now and then be pulled down after riding high
on glistening, vaselined or cocoa-buttered thighs.
One would think they had come to a theater
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