Private Poetry as a pressed-aluminium sign is available through the Museum of Modern Art Store in New York. Open edition. Dimensions 15 x 15 cm
Reverse side of Richard Tipping's Private Poetry as a pressed-aluminium sign available in-store through MoMA in NY. Open edition. Dimensions 15 x 15 cm
Richard Tipping with Private Poetry at the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in 2011 at Bondi, Sydney. Photograph by Chris Mansell.
Private Poetry 2001/2012 Edition of 9 Reflective tape on aluminium 90 x 90 cm
Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales Also collection of Brisbane City Council at the Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts
A Drop of Water
Language binds us with invisible
threads
to the translucent body
of our illusions.
How can a drop of water
ever be saved
from drying up?
The Buddha replied:
“By throwing it into the sea.”
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