Crack

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Miguel Calderón

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a large pale man

crosses the street.

he’s wearing flip flops

and his shirt is open

and untucked.

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-hey, are you

demolishing

the building?

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-i don’t know,

i’m just a

photographer.

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-been here 26 years,

they just come and tear

down whatever they want.

i grew up seeing this

place.

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-oh, sorry to hear that,

i just like the image.

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-did you know that the

building got hit by

lighting? that’s how it

got that crack.

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-oh.

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Grasping life

My nostrils

Kidnap her fumes

Veins thunders choking

And crack

My windshields

Tachycardia is not a word

A laboratory teacher

Explains evolution

Out of a piece of meat

A parasite is born

And so on

An open frog

My neck elongates

Language less journey

Torture circles

Rhythm disoriented

Two metal lightning bolt necklaces

Poke my eyes

I’m not a walking sculpture

I parade through the high school

People clap

Thinking

I’m doing a cutting edge performance

It hurts but I myself know

It looks beautiful

I imagine a red convertible

And pass this note to you

And you become my cheerleader

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a man tanning

the stations

of a new symbol

constipated sun

condensed in lines

that should belong

to a sun tanning bed

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-as an engineer, let

me tell you, that’s

defying gravity.

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what

is

this?

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-oh,

it’s a sculpture.

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the man walks away

towards his truck and

screams out loud:

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rochester

needs

more

of

this

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While photographing a crack on the wall a passerby

approached Miguel Calderon and explained that it was

the result of lightning striking the building. When he

realized that this happened at a soon-to-be-demolished

high school, the necessary equation between image and

thought really made sense: the resemblance between the

crack and a lightning bolt brought recurring images

from his adolescence. A metal sculpture mirroring the

image was installed on the wall, in order to create

a public monument resembling a lightning bolt that

lasted until the school was demolished.

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Limited to 250 numbered copies.

In addition to this book a limited

edition multiple by the artist

is available from onestar press.

desgin and layout: miguel calderón and fabiola franyutti.

thanks to: rochester art center, naura webb, frank webb, philip ahnen, chris

delisle, jason Pearson, sarah stauder, kris douglas, andrea paasch, enrique

giner de los rios.

Printed and bound in France

onestar press

49, rue Albert

75013 Paris France

[email protected]

www.onestarpress.com

/250

Miguel Calderón

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