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A beautiful collaboration between husband and wife. His poems to
her collages, call and response from Mexico's greatest poet. "Marie
Jose's constructions and boxes are three-dimensional objects
transfigured by her imagination and her sensibility into visual
ideas, mental enigmas, bearers of bizarre and disturbing images, or
of ironic perceptions. More than things to be seen, they are wings
for traveling, sails for wandering and wondering, mirrors through
which to cross." Octavio Paz Figures & Figurations, one of the
last books completed by the late Mexican poet Octavio Paz before
his death in 1998, is a collaborative effort with his wife of
thirty years, the artist Marie Jose Paz. In response to ten of her
collage-constructions, he wrote ten new short poems; she in turn
created two new artworks in response to two of his earlier poems.
Twelve poems, twelve pieces of art reproduced in full color, in a
book first published in Spanish in 1999 and now appearing in a
bilingual edition. In addition to the poems and
collage-constructions, Figures & Figurations includes an essay
by Octavio Paz on Marie Jose Paz's work, "The Whitecaps of Time,"
in which he relates how her friendship with Joseph Cornell became a
stimulus for her assemblages and how she was further spurred on by
other friends, such as Roman Jakobson and Elizabeth Bishop. "These
objects sometime surprise us," he writes, "sometimes make us laugh
or dream. Signs that invite us to a motionless voyage of fantasy,
bridges to the infinitely small or galactic distances, windows that
open on to nowhere. The art of Marie Jose is a dialogue between
here and there."
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