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Robert Kelly talks to Brian Wood's "Locks," 2015

Brian Wood. Locks, 2015, Oil on wood, 9 x 12 inches

Date: February 26, 2015 at 10:17:18 PM EST
From: Robert Kelly
Subject: Brian Wood at Art Fair Salon Zurcher | New York | March 2-8
To: Brian Wood

Brian, -- thanks for the word.  We wont be able to get there alas, but the picture sings.  Or sang to me.
love to you both,
Robert

Locks are eyes
I always knew it
crafty young
colors look out of the air,
stare in the tumbled 
bedclothes of the heart
sprawled over a silence--

we are people
we are sealed.
Not even light 
can set us free.

But when the eyes close
the locks all open.
and we are unsealed.  We lift
something heavy
and sling it aside, now
we possess identities 
or held tight by them
who knows what, we don't care.
we are, alive as never,
female and male
and all the other lingos too.

26 February 2015
for Brian Wood