Axial Art - George Quasha

Axial Art in this usage stands for visual art created according to an axial principle. In the case of axial drawing, the practice involves drawing from the lower center of the body, rather than from the arm or wrist. In virtually all of the work since 2006 it also involves drawing with two hands simultaneously, where each of the hands is part of a core movement yet is an independent expression of that movement. The term axis is quite literal in that it refers to the axis around which movement occurs.

axial process from George Quasha on Vimeo.

Axial stones-- two or more stones in unattached gravitational embrace whose axis cannot be visually detected and therefore seem impossible, an unlikely expression of (non) equilibrium—are “found,” unaltered stones brought to the point of most precarious balance. They engage entropy rather fearlessly. Perhaps even sublimely, as a site of inseparable terror and ecstasy. They show “force of nature” as both a lack and a spontaneous something unknown—lack of balance in every balancing; lack of stability in something still enough to perceive as itself; apparent lack of continuance of what is not yet gone—where nature itself can no longer be sure of what it is, because it has barely happened yet.

Quasha talk on Axial Stones at PINC from George Quasha on Vimeo.

Axial Poems

MORPHIC RESONANCE

~~~

Form
sounds
name
like
sound
forms
shape
things

ALLONYM

The
name
the
other
one
you
are
knows
you
by

WHAT IS WHERE AND NOT

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If creation
is out
of nothing,
nothing is
more
immanent
in the thing
than the thing is
immanent
in itself

Axial Music

Arner/Quasha perform "Axial Music / 2" at White Box, NYC, 9-7-10 from George Quasha on Vimeo.

All work reproduced with the kind permission of George Quasha.