Erratic Boundaries

Erratic Boundaries is a collection of ten pen and ink drawings by architect and artist Sigrid Miller Pollin, coupled with ten ekphrastic poems by poet and economist Jane D’Arista. The drawings pull the viewer into fanciful natural and constructed visual moments. The book title is embedded in Poem IV. It invites the reader into an osmotic ricochet from poem to drawing.

Here, sky rises like a canopy

above erratic boundaries

where land and water meet-

boundaries so elemental

we borrow their irregular connections

to name the ragged edges of human life:

birth, death, youth, age

and what we call love and loss.