Ducks IV

Let my first Knowing be of thee

With morning's warming Light-

And my first Fearing, lest Unknowns

Engulf thee in the night-

Emily Dickinson

All work untitled 2004-2005

Photographs and sculpture

by 

Nicole Page-Smith

Ducks III

Not Sickness stains the Brave,

Nor any Dart,

Nor Doubt of Scene to come,

But an adjourning Heart-

Emily Dickinson

All work untitled, 2004-2005

Photographs and Sculpture

by 

Nicole Page-Smith

Black IV

Grey love-snakes I drove out of your

armpits. As on hot stones

they lie on top of me now, digesting

great lumps of satisfied lust

Rilke

All drawings untitled 2004

by

Nicole Page-Smith

Black III

But I live in my own light,

I drink back into myself

the flames that break from me.

Nietzsche

All drawings untitled 2004

by

Nicole Page-Smith

Black II

O Man! Attend!

What does deep midnight's voice contend?

'I slept my sleep,

'And now wake at dreaming's end:

'The world is deep,

'Deeper than day can comprehend.

'Deep is its woe,

'Joy-deeper than heart's agony:

'Woe says: Fade! Go!

'But all joy wants eternity,

'-wants deep, deep, deep, eternity!'

Nietzsche

All drawings untitled 2004

by

Nicole Page-Smith

Ducks II

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Sculpture and photographs by Nicole Page-Smith

Ducks

Least Bee that brew-

A Honey's Weight

The Summer multiply-

Content Her smallest fraction help

The Amber Quantity-

Emily Dickinson

Drawings by Nicole Page-Smith

Black

do you not hear, how secretly,

fearfully, warmly it speaks to you,

the ancient, deep, deep midnight?

O Man! Attend!

Nietzsche

Drawings by Nicole Page-Smith

Void

YOU WERE my death:

you I could hold

when all fell away from me.

Paul Celan

(Translated by Michael Hamburger)

Drawings by Nicole Page-Smith

You abyss of light

O Sky above me! O pure deep sky!

You abyss of light!

Gazing into you, I tremble with divine desires!

Nietzsche

Drawings by Nicole Page-Smith

The Other

Lately I looked into your eye, O Life!

And I seemed to sink into the unfathomable.

Nietzsche

Drawings by Nicole Page-Smith

Postcards from the abyss

It is not the height, it is the abyss that is terrible!

The abyss where the glance plunges downward

and the hand grasps upward. There the heart 

grows giddy through its two-fold will.

Nietzsche

Drawings by Nicole Page-Smith

Balthazar's Dream

Photographs and sculpture by

Nicole Page-Smith