A Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around) :

Carter Ratcliff contemplates “LOW LYING CLOUDS, JULY 15, 2010”by Jimi Holl for the Brooklyn Rail : NOTES ON “LOW LYING CLOUDS, JULY 15, 2010” BY JIM HOLL

To these peripheral voices those of the central forms reply with irony, agreeing in ways that undermine agreement and disagreeing in ways that not so secretly acknowledge that every form in the blue field joins with every other in constantly shifting patterns. And of course, much more is being said, for saying is endless here, though there comes a time when transcription is no longer necessary—when it is enough simply to listen, which means, in this universe, to keep on looking. -- Carter Ratcliff