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“The motion that fascinates me is either as mindless or as close / to mind alone as it can get.”
This year, we’re celebrating Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month with a poetry series inviting four Latinx poets to explore and respond to a work in MoMA’s collection.
For our third poem of the series, Elisa Gonzalez wrote a poem inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photo.
Gonzalez is a poet whose work explores problems of temporality, death, stasis vs. movement, and familial relations. “For several months, I’d been trying to write about dance, but kept losing my way,” says Gonzalez. “But the obsessive repetition of Muybridge’s frames called to me, and I saw potential to explore both dance and photography.”
Read “An Inconceivable Figure in Time” on #MoMAMagazine → mo.ma/46Gh6sz
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Eadweard J. Muybridge/ “Woman Dancing (Fancy): Plate 187 from Animal Locomotion (1887)” 1884-86. Gift of Jane K. Murray
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