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8th Way of Looking at a Blackbird
8th Way of Looking at a Blackbird
8th Way of Looking at a Blackbird

8th Way of Looking at a Blackbird

Artist Michael Spafford
MediumWoodblock
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know

-Eighth stanza, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
 
“I have never been able to get a painting right the first time.” –Artist statement