PositiveThe Architect\'s NewspaperGins’s writing is not straightforward. Meaning leaps out of word adjacencies as fully formed images; often the reader inserts word, impressions, and associations in the attempt to make sense of fragments of phrases. The effect can lead to blurred vision, even as the compositions themselves remain precise. This is perhaps the point—that understanding arises from the act of perception. Gins was a master of wordplay ... The conceptual vibration of the poetic and fiction works is elucidated by two essay sections Ives pulled from the archive ... For Gins, one’s surroundings exert force on one’s being and, through focusing one’s attention on certain places, one can in turn exert force on those same surroundings. That is to say, perception is transitive, a medium for action ... Gins was there with all the rest of the artists who have been absorbed so readily into the art market and institutionalized, but her work will live on longer.
