Robert Ostrochovsky

By youoregon1

Long Bike

There's 'long board' for surfers, 'long legs' for dancers, 'long haul' for truckers, 'long mustache' for males, 'long haired' for dachshunds, 'long tails' for tuxedos, 'long words' for etymologists, 'long beach' for that city in Washington, 'long rompers' for women, 'long stitch' for seamstresses, 'long life' for Trekkies, 'long jumps' for athletes (29' or 8.95 meters), 'long knife' for a band on Facebook, 'long books' for bookworms, 'long sentence' for convicts. I am not a convict but I did like the long bike seen on Rodney Ave early this evening in north Portland. Looked to be a home made house trailer about 22 feet.
Then there is the 'long time' since Venus and Jupiter were this close before. About 2,000 years.

AT1 is tag for Abstract Thursday. My challenge for July. Five chances to define it. Or per Oswald Herzog:

....in an article on "Der Abstrakte Expressionismus" (Sturm, heft 50, 1919) gives us a statement which with equal felicity may be applied to the artistic attitude of the Dadaists. "Abstract Expressionism is perfect Expressionism," he writes. "It is pure creation. It casts spiritual processes into a corporeal mould. It does not borrow objects from the real world; it creates its own objects .... The abstract reveals the will of the artist; it becomes expression. ..." [William A. Drake, "The Life and Deeds of Dada," 1922]

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