High Blues, a poem by Jack Hirschman
- Still, as we look across this selection of Ingmire’s work from the past fifteen years or so, the labor of an artist who has emerged as one of the most prominent practitioners of contemporary calligraphy, we soon sense that the 1980s brought him to a kind of crossroads. He could easily have continued the pursuit of further refinement, an honorable branch of the calligraphic tradition, certainly, or he could forge ahead, on his own, into a largely blank — or unwritten — territory of exploration, research, and radical development, thus to advance the boundaries and critical reach of the medium itself, as art.
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