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