Dee Homans/Andrew Davis

For a few years now my partner, the poet/artist Andrew Davis, has been working on a poetry manuscript also called IMPLUVIUM. In the domestic architecture of classical Rome, the impluvium was a central courtyard with pool which functioned as a catchment basin for the rain that fell on the house. To Andy the impluvium came to stand for the "promiscuous gathering in, storing, utilization of all things, natural and otherwise."

In a blending of the currents of our separate directions, in this piece my work stands in as cloud, and Andy supplies the concrete pool. It is appropriate to the Southwest and our anxiety for water that the rain is dry, the basin empty.