Mercy-Eyed Down The Triple Highway

Poets House presents

Mercy-Eyed Down The Triple Highway

an exhibition of poem & art

by No Land & Anne Waldman

Up thru the end of January

in the upstairs gallery at

10 river terrace, Tribeca nyc

(drawing by No Land, 2025

chalk, ink, pencil

Carrington study)

Exhibition curated by John Vincler

https://poetshouse.org/mercy-eyed-down-the-triple-highway-no-land-anne-waldman-exhibition/

 

Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway: Exhibition Tour

Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway: 

No Land & Anne Waldman

Exhibition Tour: Nov 1, 2025 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
at Poets House

Join Anne Waldman & No Land for a guided tour
of their collaborative exhibition Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway.

About the Exhibition: 
No Land’s delicate visual and written worlds evoke a transcendent immateriality, while Waldman’s spells, incantations, and archival traces elicit an awakening for our time. In their wanderings from New York, through the American West, to Mexico and back since 2013, the two evoke histories of bygone poets—Shelley, Rimbaud, Corso, di Prima, Hafiz and beyond. Via devotional poem-texts, travel notes, scroll-paintings, meditations in ink, emulsion, and typewriter rhythms, No Land and Waldman dream into an inner state of seeking and active compassion, bringing into being another kind of world.

Tour from 5-6pm

immaterial

The artist known as No Land is aptly named.  Their work exists in an upper atmosphere, an etheric realm, invisible and moving.  Prana, Qi, Life Body or Ether body, are different names for the mysterious life force which animates all that exists over and above the mineral realm. Where this force comes from has been speculated upon since humans were making ochre handprints on cave walls by the light of a torch. Unseen currents make the flame dance, move the mutable clouds through the sky; they quicken and grow dark; they whisper in the blue. In the realms of art, we are presented with husks, exoskeletons of visions, records of a process whereby the artist attempts to transmute and materialize what is immaterial.  

photo by Ariella Villefranche 

We are left with the Pieta or Autumn Rhythm. A dream butterfly becomes a melody pressed into a page. A still photograph of a city in motion.  A blushing nude.  The history of art is a history of this attempt to freeze what we know never stays the same.  You can’t step in the same river once.  The work of No Land won’t fit in a portfolio.  Not because there is too much of it, but because it is always moving.  Poem scrolls and fragments are laid out on a table.  The reading begins; No Land looks through the work like tea leaves or tarot cards.  Certain pieces step forward and offer themselves.  An hourglass stands beside a rock holding the papers down.  The sand travels in both directions, suspended in the unfurling present, an oracle of words.  Lines from other poets appear and are given new meaning. The fragment, cutup, collage is taken to its terminus, then sets out on foot forward to origin; being: born anew, integrated, continuously.  The poem becomes a drawing, the drawing a song hummed while painting. Valery said that poems are never finished, only abandoned; however, it is this unfinished-ness, this abandon, which is the work.  With deep respect for the diversity which surrounds her, we learn that in the quantum jetstream of No Land’s creations, all words, sound, and image are energy vibrating behind appearance.  The veil is removed. Creation quivers, a drop of dew reflects the city in summer twilight, and falls away.                      --- Oliver Ray  

drawings & metallics, No Land 2017-2024

The Book of the Double Twilight

No Land Presents Double Twilight, at Roulette Intermedium 
Link to View Full Performance Here.
Photos by Filippo Di Franco 
Film Stills by No Land & Laura Sophia Perez & Roulette Archive 

with Anne Waldman, Louise Landes Levi, Oliver Ray, Miriam Parker, Shahzad Ismaily, Daniel Carter, Gabriel Gall, Tatianna Overton, Laura Tropi, Laura Sophia Perez, and No Land. 

Double Twilight: May 25 at Roulette Intermedium

Sunday May 25 • NYC 
 Roulette commissions the world premiere of “Double Twilight,”
 a sonic-poem work by poet and visual artist No Land

Joined by collaborators
 Oliver Ray, Daniel Carter, Shahzad Ismaily, Miriam Parker, Anne Waldman, Louise Landes Levi & others
No Land presents a spirit-temple troupe of seekers in various entwining ensembles.

Through poetry, sonic travel, & cinematic paintings, Double Twilight invokes realms of etheric mystery, compassion-study, fever-dreams, outlaw poet histories, & upholds the mercurial imagination as a form of activism. No Land weaves immaterial spirit as the connective, translucent thread between mediums and the hearts of her collaborators. Roulette Intermedium is the reliquary for this exploration, with No Land’s visual and painted works on view, as well

Tickets at https://roulette.org/event/no-land-double-twilight/

Show posters: alexis myre

Photo credits: ariella villefranche