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Becoming River

Becoming River Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 after Keith Johnson The sky above the river is crumpled tin. The water below is tin, a hammered-out river gesturing north, a square foot of incremental river brushing green into gray water, blue-slate slabs of river currenting the way rivers seldom move. The eye takes in the river’s sluicing body, the hand calligraphies the rusted arm, the rucked sway of the water’s corrugations, all shoulder and spine, all hip and back- flex where the river’s palette unspools like a river. Throw a stone into the river and the water goes stone. Let a deadfall drop into the water and the river turns to limb and leaf. Toss in a story and the story becomes riverwater falling and rising at once, a still life that never stills, a river becoming river. Ralph Black Inklight | Becoming River (after Keith Johnson) by Ralph Black | The Genesee Flows North (2016) by Keith Johnson | www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 Inklight | Becoming River (after Keith Johnson) by Ralph Black | The Genesee Flows North (2016) by Keith Johnson | www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism University of California Press

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Publisher
University of California Press
Copyright
© 2016 Afterimage/Visual Studies Workshop, unless otherwise noted. Reprints require written permission and acknowledgement of previous publication in Afterimage.
eISSN
2578-8531
DOI
10.1525/aft.2016.44.1-2.48
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Abstract

Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 after Keith Johnson The sky above the river is crumpled tin. The water below is tin, a hammered-out river gesturing north, a square foot of incremental river brushing green into gray water, blue-slate slabs of river currenting the way rivers seldom move. The eye takes in the river’s sluicing body, the hand calligraphies the rusted arm, the rucked sway of the water’s corrugations, all shoulder and spine, all hip and back- flex where the river’s palette unspools like a river. Throw a stone into the river and the water goes stone. Let a deadfall drop into the water and the river turns to limb and leaf. Toss in a story and the story becomes riverwater falling and rising at once, a still life that never stills, a river becoming river. Ralph Black Inklight | Becoming River (after Keith Johnson) by Ralph Black | The Genesee Flows North (2016) by Keith Johnson | www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 Inklight | Becoming River (after Keith Johnson) by Ralph Black | The Genesee Flows North (2016) by Keith Johnson | www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com

Journal

Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural CriticismUniversity of California Press

Published: Jul 1, 2016

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