Diálogo Interartes: quando May Swenson encontra Giacometti

"The Tall Figures of Giacometti"

May Swenson

We move by means of our mud bumps.
We bubble as do the dead but more slowly.

The products of excruciating purges

We are squeezed out thin hard and dry.

If we exude a stench it is petrified sainthood.
Our feet are large crude fused together

solid like anvils. Ugly as truth is ugly
we are meant to stand upright a long time

and shudder without motion
under the scintillating pins of light

that dart between our bodies
of pimpled mud and your eyes.

Alberto Giacometti, City Square

Enquanto May Swenson apresenta um "afastamento" nas figuras no poema, ligadas involutariamente entre si, Giacometti mostra o impulso do movimento e um sentido de direccionalidade, ainda que indefinido, das figuras masculinas.

Mas pensando na presente crise europeia, poema e escultura traçam um bom retrato de uma sociedade onde "we are squeezed out thin hard and dry"...