I've been working again at The Land/An Art Site. My present project, Winter Stars Midden," is a collaboration with glass sculptor/installation artist Leah Stravinsky. The text grew out of participating in "Azimuth: Writing on Walls," Albuquerque's Land Art show and citywide event last summer, and a visit to sculptor Charles Ross' "Star Axis." The opposite of a monolithic structure, it looks within, to an inner north star.
Writing on Walls reception, THE LAND gallery
More about LAND ART projects (Extreme Media Studies)
I enjoy teaching in a setting that is both outdoors and an art site. In the plein air workshop session at THE LAND ART's Mountainair location, we'll use words, images, installations, and natural setting as inspiration. My "Star Midden" text started out as a pantoum, a wonderful repeated form, which will also be the basis of some of our exploration.
My website / blog, Miriam's Well, covers my Star Midden project among many other topics, including interviews with poets, travel writing, reflections on place, writing poetry, teaching and more, poems ~ mine and others.
Miriam, writing "on site" at THE LAND/an art site
WINTER STARS MIDDEN
winter stars, pebbles in the arroyo
what do you gather in, hold
islands in the seas, the body
as an image of the cosmos
what do you gather in, hold
alaya–a storehouse of senses and seeds
as an image of the cosmos
a place marked and swiftly abandoned
alaya–a storehouse of senses and seeds
like a Anasazi stone granary
a place marked and swiftly abandoned
Pleiades are a wound in the constellation
an Anasazi stone granary
Sirius, Betelgeuse, Aldeboron
Pleiades are a wound in the constellation
of the starry horned Bull
Sirius, Betelgeuse, Aldeboron
color is vibration made visible
the starry horned Bull
is just a kiln of suns
color is vibration made visible
fused across empty space
is just a kiln of suns
crucible, calligraphic
fused across empty space
distance is distance from the self
crucible, calligraphic
what does it mean to be lost
distance is distance from the self
the map drawn in the dirt erased by wind
what does it mean to be lost
even the blind know the horizon
the map drawn in the dirt erased by wind
a shadow falls behind, as does the past
even the blind know the horizon
a cast of dried mud and raindrops
a shadow falls behind, as does the past
anthills, packrat middens
a cast of dried mud and raindrops
your words written in radium
anthills, packrat middens
architecture is narrative
your words written in radium
your words written in dust
architecture is narrative
the opening exhibition is Polaris
your words written in dust
a meaningful north star
the opening exhibition is Polaris
my souvenir of the Milky Way
an inner north star
or destination
my souvenir of the Milky Way
islands in the seas, the body
or destination–
winter stars, pebbles in the arroyo
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