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| "Suspend" oil and silver leaf, 10"x10" by Bridget Bossart van Otterloo, inspired by the poem below: |
Sic
habebis glorium totius mundi*
by Rhonda Morton
Black
widow rounds her legs above her head,
a
halo circling delicate fangs.
She
suspends judgment.
For
now.
She
is simply waiting
to
spin me, you,
into
a straight and knotted fate.
The
great neuroscientist
Karl
Friston is her friend.
He
says
everything
alive acts
to
reduce the difference
between
expectation and experience.
Karl
and the widow agree:
we
are here
to
eliminate
surprise.
Fate
is a blanket over our heads,
a
suffocating repeating weave,
indecipherable
dots and dashes
burned
onto our souls.
How
much glory can I stand?
How
much grace?
What
happens if I drop a stitch,
dive
into the pitch,
collapse
a different wave?
I
could pledge the gumption
to
become
a
blue crescent moon spooling from the sun.
Ribs
breathing golden arrows.
A
pyramid whirling back to angel spit and dust.
I
look at where the thread goes.
As
above, so below.
I
throw away the needle.
Choose
to scatter thistle seed instead.
*You
will understand the glory of the whole world
This poem and painting are part of a "Year Long Celebration of Poetry" project organized by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, culminating in our current exhibit. Please join us for a closing Reception on Thursday, July 11, 2019.
Game of Telephone
Conversations in Poetry and Art
On view through July 14, 2019
Reception: July 11, 2019
6-8pm
The classic childhood "game of telephone" has been given an artful twist in the unique exhibit, Game of Telephone: Conversations in Poetry and Art.
To
kick off National Poetry Month in April of 2018 The ARTS Council worked
with poet, Michael Czarnecki, who wrote a poem to start a year-long Game of Telephone
in the arts. Michael's poem was given to a visual artist who created a
piece inspired by the poem and then the visual art was given to the next
poet, who created a poem inspired by the artwork. This continued on for
a year with the artists and poets seeing only the piece that came
immediately before them.
The
culmination of this project is on exhibit at Carey's Brew House in
Corning with a reception on Thursday, July 11th from 6:00 - 8:00pm.
Everyone is invited to this free event. All artworks will be available
for purchase. Come see what one poem turned into over the course of a
year!
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