led by curiosity, process and materials
inspired by seaweed and light
moulded by place and time
Hands
A photo:
two sets of hands:
one,
on a heartless clock
tick on,
another,
on a networking artist,
fumble to weave detritus
into a meaningful form.
That photo
is recycled as a prompt
that art
is as tangled as
the fishing net snagged on a roof tile
-engaged but can’t move on-
is as tangled as
the reasons we don’t have
to live a disposable life.
A prompt
that life still hears the metronome
for musician tides
in the dance of dying seaweed
whose holdfast no longer holds,
whose spores and eggs still need
new shells, new rocks
new minds
to hold them.
Spume eddies in a storm
Contained
where the centre could not hold the nihilated art thought-threads
of voice and choice sucked up in tornados of parental disapproval
shimmers nomadding dissipated over thousands of miles
into deep deep time
nesting nowhere
fledging never
separated
still
The book of the text and images White Shadows with a silk cyanotype cover.
A page from my experimental poetry and prose essay White Shadows.
Rocks
red, white, grey, blue, green, pink
mountains as they were
echo through time calling us to care
drowned memories
muffled under tidal songs
swallowed by louder shouts of
More! More! More!
shell dunes with seaweed flux
help us see clearly, feel closely
those pigments, those mountains,
those echoes from the rocks
all those colours are in us
all those voices of songs are in us
they are ours
Saltern cove haiku
wild thought in wise soul
struggling to knit you and me
time could still hold us
An aquatint on hard ground from the book WHite Shadows.
Silk
silk-water swells
snake to make and move
break and weave
wake and feed
people
water-silk swells
move currents to a
rhythm always changed by cries of
More! by
us
silky swells water
forests of jelly
photosynthesis-firm
while holding CO2 fast for
people
water-swollen silk
enlivens floating spheres
of sea and air
silk for
us
Numbers
numbers
numbing numbers
date
time
ticking time
and
quantities
and
categories
numbers
numbing numbers
oceans
trees
living trees
temperatures
tentacles
valued less
than
numbers
numbing numbers
oar weed
digitata
ticking digits
and
towns with
tots
tiny tots
numbers
numbing numbers
eco-ethics
tide poetics
unclassifiable
unquantifiable
with
no need
for
numbers
numbing numbers