Still Life With Woodpecker
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Title: Still Life With Woodpecker
Creator: Robbins, Tom
Date: 1980
Source: PS 3568 .O233 S85
Description: Epigraphs:
You don't need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don't even listen, simply wait.
Don't even wait.
Be still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you.
To be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
--Franz Kafka
Here should be a picture of my favorite apple.
It is also a nude & bottle.
It is also a landscape.
There are no such things as still lifes.
--Erica Jong
You don't need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don't even listen, simply wait.
Don't even wait.
Be still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you.
To be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
--Franz Kafka
Here should be a picture of my favorite apple.
It is also a nude & bottle.
It is also a landscape.
There are no such things as still lifes.
--Erica Jong
Collection: Rare Books and Periodicals
Citation: Robbins, Tom, “Still Life With Woodpecker,” VCU Libraries Gallery, accessed April 20, 2024, https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/79638.