one can look at seeing; one cannot hear hearing

In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Sonata' 1911.

Source text: ‘The beauty of indifference: The art of Marcel Duchamp’ in The Artist's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists by George Hagman (2010)

See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.