Week 1: TOUCH

The first word is TOUCH--let's see where it takes you... painting, drawing, object--something made with that quality...

and the poem I read you, from ancient China, translated by Ezra Pound:

In the South be drooping trees,
Long the bough, thick the vine,
Take thy delight,
my prince, in happy ease.

In the South be drooping boughs,
the wild vine covers,
that hold delight, delight, good sir,
for  eager lovers.

Close as the vine clamps the trees
so complete is happiness,
Good sir, delight delight, in ease
In the South be drooping trees.

from The Confucuian Odes, Book I: IV, Chou and the South,
translated by Ezra Pound (New York: New Directions,1954)