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...inches from the mine floor to the roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When the day is done, coal dust covers his face and permeates his overalls. Ruby takes a scrub brush to the washer, the dryer and the bathtub, trying to remove the sooty coal...
...break the mold, Marden in the mid-'80s started doing calligraphic drawings, not with a brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...
...seem to consist of nothing but line, moving across the surface in an improvised way full of checks, turnings, erasures -- a maze making itself. The nature of the line is intimately involved with the tool Marden uses, which is in effect the ailanthus twig writ large: a long-handled brush with flitchlike bristles, floppy rather than stiff, whose ramblings convey an air of reflective uncertainty. Not for Marden the forceful calligraphic rush, the electric ink- blackness, of some Zen characters...
Fritschel, a cross country runner, says she faithfully performs the same routine--"sit ups, toe lifts, contacts out, brush and floss, go-to bed-early-because-I-have-to-go-to breakfast-or-my-day-isn't-complete-without-it"--every night...
...open a book, and an ant will be crawling on the page. You'll reach for your coffee mug, and an ant will be exploring the inside. Ants run across your hand as you type. They inch down the mirror as you brush your teeth. They're tiny specks moving across the TV, and little tickles on your ear as you talk on the phone...