Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, 2000
Installation of Aqua, an Auto-Tonic Reverberations production

:An excerpt of A Way Up and Down
from Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe
A collection of poetry by Tan Lin

...Blue streaks of luck: I rent a room
And a place to paint water.
I number the Lenses and Liquids:
It reaches a rippling site or cool ember.
Such prophets: the white can of paint
Or poisonous plant, set afire.
A medium. A hand points
or peels back a canvas. My heart
falls out: frame for the unattended
motion, fur on an animal, speck of dust on a child's cap gun, the needle swimming...