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Last Living Words

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The title of this piece was inspired by the book Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader translated from the German by Lillian M. Friedberg. This is actually my response to one of Bachmann's poems, "You Words". I wanted to depict the same basic imagery of the poet shepherding her words and setting them free; but I wanted to convey a sense of harmony, tranquility, and a sort of artistic serendipity, rather than the onerous feeling of obligation, monotony, and artistic disenchantment that seems apparent in the poem. I was encouraged to pursue this alternate viewpoint by a quotation at the end of the book: "she laughed as she remembered Ingeborg's laugh, and you could see how beautiful Ingeborg had been." (Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.)




Let it go, I say, let it go.

Not a word in this supreme ear,
nothing, I say, whispered,
let not one word of death in,
let go, and follow me, not gently
nor embittered,
not bursting with consolation,
without consolation,
signifying nothing,
thus not without sign –

Just spare me this: the image
spun from the fabric of dust, the empty garble
of syllables, last dying words.

~ from “You Words”, Ingeborg Bachmann




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Image size
2448x3264px 1011.81 KB
Make
OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Model
C5060WZ
Shutter Speed
10/6400 second
Aperture
F/8.0
Focal Length
12 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Nov 30, 1999, 12:00:00 AM
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akky3210's avatar
Absolutely beautiful!!!!! I can't imagine how much time this took! My one quibble is that some of the repeating moths are right next to each other--I understand why you didn't cut out more (coming back to the whole time thing), but maybe you should have been careful that they didn't repeat obviously. That's just me being nitpicky, though--it's not that big of a deal.

I really love the piece. I think you conveyed exactly what you were going for. It makes me smile. :) :D :) :D