Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in New York. I will be thinking of you all with the work at the opening.Įzra Tessler (b. That's why I'm sending this card, because you and I are separate and if this reaches you, you'll know that shapes and colors have the power to move, even within the new vocabularies we invent.
I won't start telling you what the paintings mean or the work besides the paintings or how they'll read together. The vocabulary of symbols broke down long ago, and we're all alone in our studios.Ĭheck the back of the card- from my single perspective, to yours. White lilies don't read as Christ, doves don't mean the holy spirit, light rays in paintings can imply any number of metaphoric or physical sensations. I can't be sure of anything these days, except that if this communication reaches you, from my desk in the country to your desk in the city, I am somehow right about what these shapes mean. I've made a primer so that you know what each of these symbols mean.
