WHAT MONDRIAN KNEW

Any time the great poet Charles Wright uses the word transparent, we take notice.

“As Mondrian knew,
Art is the image of an image of an image,
More vacant, more transparent
With each repeat and slouth:
____________________one skin, two skins, it comes clear,
An old idea not that old.”

Image of an image;  or Drawing from Drawing.  There is vacancy in transparency;  some would call space a vacancy.  Repeat and purge;  at least that’s how I read it.  Skin is thin;  it usually lets clear light in.  And yes, this idea is as old as the hills.

1.  Wright, Charles. “Summer Storm.” Chickamauga. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; New York. p 85