72. GEOFFREY HOLDER: A SPACE BETWEEN NOW AND NEVER.

Boscoe Holder | Geoffrey Holder - Victoria Miro - LONDON.

Geoffrey Holder, Swimmers II, 1986, Coloured pencil on paper, 91.4 x 116.8 cm 36 x 46 in. Victoria Miro.

Skin - touched with ocelot spots as dappled as tender touch - applied by fingertip to ponder and play in the hushed russles of a garden deep - leafily surrounding shoulders as sheets - envelop - and hands stretch as outlined returning -

To tessellate time - holding on to these moments - as leaves move as a shoal and this motion melds to be - as to camouflage into the animal - back into the charcoal page - pulled from a ream.

The hummingbird flashes of gloss hover as luster of life - as crayoned plethora to bloom.

To grasp the sides of this boat where water as chiffon veils a body beneath - to lip in whites as a torn edge - tepid and still - the surface vertical as the undulating body as landscape protrudes - as toes rest on enamel base and eyes close as in halcyon days.

To pool and rest within a surface - stretching to reach for a space between now and never.

Gloved in the diaphanous grazes of lightness.

As in the echos I swim within myself - outreach in joyous release - to join the endless rhythms of ease - and face a lullaby of surrender.

Geoffrey Holder, Nude Lovers Embracing, (detail) Conte crayon on paper mounted on black paper, 120.7 x 90.2 cm 47 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. Victoria Miro.

Boscoe Holder - Geoffrey Holder - Victoria Miro - Until 27 July 2024.