60. TINA MODOTTI: A SPACE BETWEEN REACH AND FALL.

L'œil de la révolution, Jeu de Paume - PARIS.

As a cathedral reaches - as an opening ceiling - unzipping -

as a tender notion - as a darkness shocks to move in silence

as seams ridge and a casual nature is.

A functioning quiet - an ongoing nurturing and symbolism sustained - a scent imagined - an inhaled prayer.

A gloss of form and stillness of poise - to open and fall - eventually to decay - but for now eternal.

Nu - 1923 - by Edward Weston

A body bare - beneath the sun - as the skin turns - and points darken - as the eye glosses and hair heightens -

The shadow beneath the arc of the spine - beneath the slip of skin

- under arm - under knee - under face

- the shadow between an outline - which pools of rest - quiet and underseen as the focus holds the skin.

The eyelash fur - full - the eyebrow brushed - still

- the gloss of touch - the imagined touch -

In this heat - the beating heat -

pretending to be alone - when in fact - a subject is studied

As the rib cage forms - and the skin pulled over

- to form a landscape - a mountainous scape - to undulate and fall - to pool in the valleys and to rise - over nipple - under ear - over hip

The mirroring of anatomy and the casual asymmetry of the rest - of the calm - of an ease.

As a hand span rests in the cool of the unseen - to leave a momentary trace - an imagined imprint - on hot bricks baked underfoot.

Tina Modotti - L'œil de la révolution - Jeu de Paume - Until 12 May.