Scene i · The Different Clock · paired with this canvas.
Tadhg Slater · The Libretto
The Libretto, Paired with the Paintings
The libretto of Untitled Coast was written across the same Provincetown season that produced the canvases on this page, set in the weeks after the harbor empties and the town goes quiet. A question runs through both: what does a coast remember, once the boats leave and the streets fill with strangers? Below is a public excerpt from the opening act, paired with the four paintings closest to it.
Act I · Public Excerpt
The harbor keeps a different clock in summer.
The boats carry names that no one here knows.
I walked the breakwater for the cold,
to come back inside a different person.
The light at five stays at five for forty minutes.
I counted it on the wall above the work.
The painting came back softer than I left it,
as if the coast had asked it to slow down.
Scene ii · The Breakwater · paired with this canvas.
Scene iii · The Light at Five · paired with this canvas.
Scene iv · The Wall Above the Work · paired with this canvas.
Read the first pairing · /concrete-winter · Read the excerpt above
