Ken Procter
Vastness
The project was a collaboration with Kazanetti String Quartet. Nine Vastness drawings are my response to Amplitud, by Jorge Guillén. Kazanetti responded with a piano quintet arrangement of de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain. The exhibition and performance with Kazanetti and Sergio Ruiz on piano, premiered at Georgia College and reprised at Piedmont College in Demarest, Georgia.
The sequence of drawings begins at either end and flows to center. Click on images to enlarge. Most are now in private collections.
Jorge Guillén
Breadth
Far off, below, the pine forests spread out
masses of duration. They are the dark
greeneries that, bound to earth,
stretching out from below, lift
the stillness in an expanse of leafage,
close-knit. And densely they endure, green
in their greed for a breadth of summit,
of a never-ending summit all around,
while through their circles swells and exalts
that aroma of space forever vast.
from Cántico (“Song”)
(Translated by Louis Bourne)
Jorge Guillén
Amplitud
Lejos, abajo, los pinares tienden
masas de duración. Son los oscuros
verdores, que –ceñidos a la tierra,
desde abajo extendiéndose- levantan
la quietud en extensión de los follajes,
prietos. Y densamente duran, verdes
en su avidez de una amplitud de cima,
de una cima sin fin a la redonda,
mientras cunde y se exalta por sus círculos
aquel olor a espacio siempre inmenso.
De Cántico