Art: Scratches on the Window (monotype) by John Timothy RobinsonESCAPE TO NOWHERE
Good morning! Where would you like to go?
I’d like to go to the Museum of Contemporary Art. How long do you think it will take to get there?
It depends on the traffic.
Or you could make a Sackler-sized donation. Good morning, what are you drawing?
Good morning, I’m drawing new transit lines. That’s too easy. How about drawing fish? What kind?
The kind that crash.
God said be quiet Mortimer. Mortimer
did not listen. Mortimer continued to beat on his drum all day. Mortimer quietly made stronger pain pills. What kind?
The kind that crash
into an escape to nowhere. Hollywood. 看看不能你.
Look at you, can’t you. You see not you. God
said: Well, I know what I can do. What if I filmed the trains crashing into each other? I can
just watch the film over and over and over again. And that’s how I can make my first movie.
Does art have side-effects? Luckily the trains didn’t break.
But I looked at that film
over and over-and-over again, and then I thought: I wonder what else I could do with this camera?
About the author:
Thomas Osatchoff is doing field-work for his debut collection of poetry. Recent poems of his can be found in Cleaver Magazine, Harpur Palate, Obra/Artifact, Word For/Word, and elsewhere. Thomas has resided in many places throughout the world where he has had opportunities to develop his perspective.
Art: Scratches on the Window (monotype) by John Timothy Robinson
In the artist's words:
John Timothy Robinson is a mainstream citizen and minored in Studio Art: Printmaking in college. John is also a twelve-year educator in Mason County, WV. He is a published poet with 150 literary works appearing in 102 journals and websites since August 2016 in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom. In Printmaking, he has published eighty-four print and photographic images, though his primary medium is Monotype and Monoprint process with interest in collagraph, lithography and etching. Recent work; Cover “Rock Layers” first appeared in North American Review for 2019. “Rise,” “Leaf Image III” and “Golden Bridge” (red hill, purple sky) were first published in Castabout Art and Literature for 2019. “The Philosopher’s Stone” first appeared in Curating Alexandria for 2019. “Two Faces; Faded Green II” was first published in post card format for Red Flag Poetry, November 2019. “Leaf Image” for Right Hand Pointing issue 135 November 2019. Essays on Printmaking; “An Aesthetic for Printmaking” appeared at Empty Mirror in 2018. Contact:
jtrobinson@k12.wv.us
