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The Fate of the Written Word
Painting

2007
64 x 72 in. (162.56 x 182.88 cm)

Chester Arnold (Santa Monica, California, 1952 - )

Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on linen
Credit Line: Gift of Elizabeth and Byron Ryono
Accession Number: 2008.16

Exhibition


Bookish
, September 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

SJMA Label Text


Bookish (2011-2012)

This poem by Chester Arnold is written on the back of his painting of the same name:

The Fate of the Written Word
2007
Chester Arnold

What seductions could entrance
A history grown so fitfully
With words, words written,
Spoken, thought over, dreamed:
It is not content, surely,
But a medium of exchange,
One suited so far to the dim
Light of our growth.
Now, the slivers of a
Billion broken thoughts
Mutate and reconfigure into speech.
I rub my forehead hoping
For a way of thinking clearly
In the muddle of high speed.
Your eyes so accustomed to
The glow of screens, may
Never make it to the end of
My sentence
Yet we all must travel
Down the old road.

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