"notebook drawings" by Ira Joel Haber
the game of peonies and foxes and you
we play a game. we go into an empty room. i bring only my fingers. i point them at you. bang. peonies. bang. foxes, vines and stone columns pop into existence. the vines climb the stone columns and the foxes trot off in the distance. you hold up your empty hands. bang bang. i show you i can keep them that way. you are overwhelmed even with this, as you should be. you stagger. you fall. i shoot you. grass grows from the floor and overtakes you. coral peonies open like your surprised mouth, like sun wounds.
erin wilson
we play a game. we go into an empty room. i bring only my fingers. i point them at you. bang. peonies. bang. foxes, vines and stone columns pop into existence. the vines climb the stone columns and the foxes trot off in the distance. you hold up your empty hands. bang bang. i show you i can keep them that way. you are overwhelmed even with this, as you should be. you stagger. you fall. i shoot you. grass grows from the floor and overtakes you. coral peonies open like your surprised mouth, like sun wounds.
erin wilson
erin wilson writes, takes photographs, and runs in a small town in northern Ontario.
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
