Um teste de altura: saltos entre o livro Parque das ruínas, de Marília Garcia, e as Live Transmissions, de Morgan O’Har

Abstract

In the book The Poet and Time, Marina Tsvetaeva states: “to look at something one must elevate oneself above what is to be observed, place a whole leap between oneself and the thing — the refusal of height. For I look at height!”. This work is a height test, a leap, an essay-poem that articulates, in the first person, my experiences and practical and theoretical discoveries in the universe of arts, poetry, and research. I draw closer to the book Parque das Ruínas, by the Brazilian poet Marília Garcia, and the drawing series Live Transmission, by the American artist Morgan O’Hara, through the procedures of appropriation and displacement used by both and which are also part of my creative process. I understand the leap as a movement from which it is possible to see through various different perspectives and, when I return to the starting point, because of the fall and what was seen, it is no longer the same base as the previous leap. I seek to establish the invisible line that connects Morgan and Marília, that links the poet and the artist to me and my references, while exploring possibilities of dialogue between poetry and drawing, as I understand that both are ways of training and exercising the gaze. In practice, I displace the drawing’s creation procedure into the universe of the poem and also take the verse from its original context to use it as a way to theorize and experiment with drawing.