Inspiration for creating the body of work "Simplicity Of Form --- Light and Shadow" Homage to Donald Judd

Poetry by Michael Mcguire

johing with judd

it seems judd's journal would early on note

the joinery of these vast open spaces

with the anonymously minted masses of hardedge surfaces

the grand geological gestures amid the emptiness

one impassively emanating elemental power

the other unspontaneously whispering the infinite

it would note how through repeated regimes of reduction

through eons of elimination and savage simplification

comes an unaesthetic purification

how the scenery so stripped down and starkly visible

sleekens the sense of simple seeing

and mirrors his move towards minimalism

how it births an objective expansiveness

grips the flat ground of the imagination

enlarging him unlyrically and impersonally from within