Passage of the bill required compromise and suspended animation regarding one dimension of women's rights. A morning story on NPR by Andrea Seabrook, called "Health Care Passage Hinged on Abortion Language" describes the drama (and the irony) well.
The "bipartisan in content, but not in context" Health Care Reform bill made me want to take a look at Quasha's website for examples of Axial Stones (he is adding more each week).Here is what Carter Ratcliff has to say in the forward to the book, about situations of precarious alignment:
Gathered into one another’s company, George Quasha’s axial stones establish a zone of riveting stillness. Yet each was brought to that shared state by a history—a tempo of events—entirely its own. It is the work of an instant to spot a likely stone, but it may take the artist days or years to see how two stones fit together to form a single piece. The fitting itself can be quick or slow. In any case, the process follows strict rules: one stone must be balanced on another, at a narrow point of contact, and no adhesive is permissible nor may either stone be modified in any way. The results are astonishing.
Click here for more axial art including a video of the axial stones in process.
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