By Tamsin Smith as in all things pulling against . or leaning to desire is severed . like a limb or a head the pit of the statue . remounted, withdrawn regardless anew . metamorphism being rock’s birth-born luster . interlock of impure pressure polished to vein . and waxy scar sobs sculpted without face […]Read Post ›
By Tamsin Smith what was the windmill to make of your jousting it’s as comic a scene as this sunset giant turned towards your charge powered by pierced by illusory air’s embrace assailed in the very act of revolution arms reeling and all stolen kisses out-blown like emptied wishes
by Tamsin Smith & that was that was that the first and only rule don’t leave before looking to the sea shore stretched weary call your soul-flared lighthouse home to the island of springs & ancient astronomy making very good use of water planting tears to tear tears away away with you then all your […]Read Post ›
By Tamsin Smith Smoke-choked corridors Ash in trays spilling Centuries of blackened books Smote heir splendid stories Their splendid stories Survived by stubborn spines Numb to the specter of cracking It’s all boneyard now But for one soul Plunking keys No one registers anymore Not rooms not chords Schubert, Basie, Monk Struck dumb Be voiceless […]Read Post ›
by Tamsin Smith roseate girl-blush too muchness of speech en-bedded locked and lacquer-dried with hyphen-hook decoupage wry-wrought rhetorical camouflage designed to delay prolong cave-comb elastic precision up from word-web to then spidersspiral out circle by circle sharp-tooth slant-told hush- holding slow- hanging crystal thought-seed in-set drifting dandelion wish-vessel unclasped by cloud convey full sail too much
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first published in Juxtapoz, October 25, 2018 Hilary Pecis, “Favorite Vase”, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in., 2018. Hilary Pecis’ Familiar Views in San Francisco Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco September 29 – October 26, 2018 Paint what you know seems an anachronistic chestnut in an age of immediate interconnectedness,…
NOVIO ELECTRICO: TODO LA NOCHE BY TAMSIN SMITH What to say about Novio Electrico’s eponymous debut album? Considering that I’ve been carrying their clever harmonies around in my head and rolling their lyrics around on my tongue all week, my first thought is: bravo. From there, I’d add: delicious, flirtatious, unique, groovy, distinctly-pleasing, and totally […]Read Post ›
first published in Juxtapoz, August 17, 2018 Cycle, oil and acrylic on canvas, 80 x 170 cm, 2018. Kevin Earl Taylor’s New Exhibition Apex Opens in Berlin Tamsin Smith & Matt Gonzalez Circle Culture in Berlin, Germany, recently opened Apex, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based painter Kevin Earl Taylor, which runs until September 15, […] […]Read Post ›
first published in SquareCylinder, April 24, 2017 ADAM FEIBELMAN: Layering of Self & Other Review: Adam Feibelman “Personal Provenance” @ Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco By Tamsin Smith and Matt Gonzalez Adam Feibelman returns to Guerrero Gallery after having last exhibited there in 2013, when it was at 19th and York Streets. At that time, […]Read Post ›
