Vanishing Point Exhibition
Vanishing Point – a poet responds
1 May – mid July 2015
SOPHIE CARNELL | KATHERINE COOPER | RON C MOSS | TOBY MUIR-WILSON | PETER WALSH
New Space
A new exhibition space
where once
was an old wooden
warehouse on a wharf –
things change all the time.
I stop to peer!
Huge plate-glass windows
bright Whitely walls
small odd-shaped common
place bits and pieces of plastic
precisely presented
carefully lit
one foot from the floor –
an attractive ‘New Wave’ frieze
at home in a sparse
modern dining room.
I might become a collector
of the small . . .
the odd.
The eye scrolls up –
large paintings of sea-birds.
Scanned into the foreground
jewellery in locked boxes
unusable beautiful objects
sculpt with sea-anemone
fragility in mind.
I was having trouble
‘reading’ what I was seeing.
I needed to get in
behind the glass wall.
Two scans and I was in
a science precinct!
I automatically snap
into analytic mode.
Words on the wall enlighten.
The illuminated
square of circles
become what they
originally are –
Petrie dishes
whose squalid contents
sicken heart and mind.
Art and Science
synthesizing
to make statements?
Am I in a Confessional?
Does all the guilt
which belongs naturally
to synthetics
raise its head here
asking forgiveness?
“We know not . . .”
Is the art of beauty
to be used as a vehicle
to continue old practices?
Or does it signify
less certainty?
Do I perceive
tentacles of redemption?
I find myself
‘listening’
for the motive
at play here . . .
da da da dum
Beethoven?
That augurs well!
Watch this space!
Pauline Bindoff
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