Verb List, 1967-68

VERB LIST, 1967-68                                                                    PARCEL IMAGES

to roll                         to curve                                                        intuit

to crease                    to lift                                                             fill in

to fold                        to inlay                                                         complete       

to store                      to impress                                                    reconstitute

to bend                      to fire                                                            reorder

to shorten                 to flood                                                          reflect

to twist                      to smear                                                       refer to

to dapple                   to rotate                                                        relate to

to crumple                to swirl                                                          interpret

to shave                     to support                                                     compare

to tear                        to hook                                                         remember

to chip                        to suspend

to split                       to spread

to cut                          to hang

to sever                      to collect

to drop                       of tension

to remove                  of gravity

to simplify                 of entropy

to differ                     of nature

to disarrange            of grouping

to open                      of layering

to mix                        of felting

to splash                   to grasp

to knot                       to tighten

to spill                       to bundle

to droop                     to heap

to flow                        to gather

to scatter                  to modulate

to arrange                 to distill

to repair                    of waves

to discard                  of electromagnetic

to surfeit                   of polarization

to complement         of refraction

to enclose                  of simultaneity

to surround               of tides

to encircle                 of reflection

to hide                       of equilibrium

to cover                      of symmetry

to wrap                      of friction

to dig                          to stretch

to tie                          to bounce

to bind                       to erase

to weave                    to spray

to join                        to systematize

to match                    to refer

to laminate                to force

to bond                      of mapping

to hinge                     of location

to mark                     of context

to expand                  of time

to dilute                    of carbonization

to light                       to continue

 

-Richard Serra, from “Richard Serra, Writings Interviews,” (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994);  Verb List, pg. 3+4, Parcel Images, pg. 123.