random thoughts, musings and workings of a totally warped mind. tintin is a colorblind writer who paints,dreams of flying a kite along EDSA, teaches middle & high school writing & literature, and is the future mother of Kulay and Una Rosa Maria.

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

This one's interesting:

Kites.
Kites.
Birds.
Flight.
Sound.
Movement.
The Summer 2000 series of Artifact Posters was constructed of crackling yellow architect's tracing paper, red cotton string, and wire with language, much like the kite pictured below. The Series was dedicated to a man and a woman of my acquaintance who loved one another for fifty years without expressing it physically.
This page qualifies as "erotica" because of the incredible love I saw in the woman's eyes as she told me the story of the kite that had hung from her living room ceiling for 40 years.
She told how she & the man had purchased twin kites while traveling together in China. Told how, like hers, his still hangs. Said that in the days they moved in the same circles, the man had been married to someone else.
I guessed from the almost imperceptible sadness behind her smile as she spoke of their matching kites, that their love had never been expressed in the way lovers tend to express their feelings.
In some sense fifty years of physically unexpressed love is anti-erotic, but certainly of no less value.
Warned you I could be a scamp.
"Make a love sound."

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