by
Patrick Sutczak
At the still point of the turning world, Neither
flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor toward; at the still point, there the
dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement, And do not call it
fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement
from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the
still point
There would be dance, and there is no dance.
T.S. Eliot, BN II: 16-21
It
is important to read that beautiful piece from T.S. Eliot’s epic Four Quartets in order to appreciate the
deeper emotional and ontological associations with Darryl Rogers' Waterwalkers currently exhibiting at
Sawtooth ARI in Launceston.
A
brief but carefully worded blurb attached to the corridor on the way into the
exhibition gives us a clue that Roger’s work is rich with complex ideas
featuring time, no-time, quantum theory and matter fused with Eliot’s exquisite
poetry.
