Monday, December 1, 2014

Bond of Union

 M.C. Escher
Bond of Union, 1956, by M. C. Escher 


Etching an image into a smooth copper plate
intention to carve plane landscape with gouge,
linoleum cutter,
he loved bun-shaped roof and rocks, choosing
not architect, but art craft

printing and peeling others skins off,
exchanging the balls, brain rolls with breeze
vertical/horizontal metamorphosis,
climbing to mountains through labyrinths
to be able to touch his part of stars, bent of bond.

He gazed into maze – no time waste –
rattled through scattered corridors,
corrida of thoughts, interlocking forms,
snakes and ladders, gathering in plain
secular splendor of harvest union.


by Brenda Warren

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11 comments:

  1. Peeling back the layers between two can lead to some interesting results

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  2. What we all want, to touch our part of stars...

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  3. We each own a unique view and perspective, some far more than others. And each of us must find some way to express it or it will never be known to the world. I like this poem that, for me, celebrates individual creative process.

    Elizabeth

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  4. peeling of skin can reveal much about a person..to touch the stars is the destination.

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  5. If it isn't a tribute to M.C. Escher, it could be. In any case, it is intricate and wonderful!
    http://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/one-soul-as-two-minds.html

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  6. It's all about what's beneath the surface, isn't it? This is an incredible write.

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  7. This does feel like a tribute to the master artist himself! Nicely done.

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  8. hate to imagine hte breeze if my skin is peeled off...just saying...ha...
    early efforts into post-modern deconstructionism....

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  9. That is some harvest union ~ Interesting response humbird ~

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