The Fog of War- Marlene Dumas

// May 25th, 2007 // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

I finally took time to stop and read this poem; part of an art installation by Marlene Dumas. It hangs in a cultureless corridor filled with art, that I’d passed dozens of times on the way to my office. I wonder if I’m the only person whose stopped to read it, and if any others did whether they too shivered at the realisation of the vacuum surrounding them.

3 Responses to “The Fog of War- Marlene Dumas”

  1. Wayde says:
    May 25, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    mr josephson, quality again!

  2. Arthur Josephson says:
    May 29, 2007 at 1:32 am

    Glad to hear bro.

    Dumas is a fellow South African of yours Wayde. Here’s a link to some of here paintings http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/marlene_dumas.htm.

  3. 正元 says:
    January 26, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    the day i visited MOCA and read her another poem:

    i am the woman who does not know
    where she wants to be buried anymore.
    when i was small, i wanted a big angel on my grave
    with wings like in a Caravaggio painting.
    later i found that too pompous.
    so i thought i’d rather have a cross.
    then i thought-a tree. i am the woman who does not know
    if i want to be buried anymore.
    if no one goes to graveyards anymore
    if you won’t visit me there no more
    i might as well have my ashes in a jam jar and be more mobile.

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