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In between

earth and sky,
living and dying,
coming and going,

there are statues and stations,
still and moving,
silent and loudly proclaiming.

In the midst of stations
perhaps there are angels
shores along which they descend,
in between their world and ours.
The sacred and profane
return to the sea.

Simeon Posen, Pamela Williams, Joachim Oepkes,
these three artists return to those places that draw them,
again and again, to find what?
In European cemeteries, on downtown Toronto streets,
by lakes, rivers, waterfalls, off the beaten track and oceans stretching,
as far as the eye can see,
as close as the hand can touch,
something still unknown,
moving too fast to hold onto,
glimpsed between the opening and closing of a shutter.

deborah harris
April, 2006

Stations

There is an instant in everyone’s journey

whether in one’s room

or inside the oblivious sky

we search our face to see a face

our movements make us continue

but that stopping moment

forced by imagery

untrained eye frozen and seduced

soul paralysis

you are at a place

a station

that is the question.

by Joachim Oepkes