TOUCH & GO
TOUCH & GO
The Present: About Time Figurative Studies
Bronze with Gold Leaf, 2023
W x L x H
10 x 12 x 21 inches
Just one edition.
Laura Teste
TOUCH & GO represents The Present in the About Time Figurative Studies.
With Bach’s fugues in my studio and McTaggart’s theories jotted in my notes, I sought to embody a dramatic juncture in the flow from past to future.
At the heart of “Touch & Go” is a figure of toil. She is the moving “now”, not standing still but existing in some fugue of immediacy.
Her labor defines her moment of existence. No one is stopping to smell the roses. Only the gold footprints mark the dignity of her spirit.
Touch & Go testifies to the transient beauty and burdens of the living.
TOUCH & GO
The future and the past immortal.
But not she, no status quo.
Moving by the moment, touch and go.
Always at the cusps of daybreaks,
Between heartaches and hellos.
Sowing seeds of being, she soon grows.
And when she declares her freeing,
Wild as the cape she throws,
Casting fate and seeing, where she blows.
Her every hour is retreating,
The fleeting-now that no one knows.
Living in the present, she lifts her toes.
