Mario Miron

"I’m drinking wine.

The trees by the edge there

form the shape of the beloved.

Tempera: that fantasy needs a binding agent.

Or all looking becomes her. The sketch of leaves

turns to the sound of them, or the blue over the snow

becomes the meaning of the word “Paris.”

France has tweakers too, that surprised me.

And all I saw that day.

To paint something is to inscribe

its value, without nostalgia.

Simply there. My emotions

would become overused, if not

diluted in time, like pain

and other types of suffering.

Spring finally arrived

and I’m writing again

without any great result."

—Ben Fama, Laissez-faire, written on the occasion of Mario Miron’s “Recollections,”

Mario Miron is based in New York. Miron co-organizes the artist run gallery Gern en Regalia with Zoe Brezsny. He has exhibited his artwork at Climate Control (San Francisco, California), Afternoon Projects (Vancouver, CA), Pik Deutz (Cologne, DE), Sinkhole Projects (NYC), Interstate (NYC), Wild Flower (Baltimore, Maryland) and Sleepy Hollow Fine Art (Portland, Maine), among others.