Most days I would try to write a poem; it is a practice, as I suppose is meditation, or smiling, or watching the world go by
Friday, 10 December 2021
Frame
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Place And Time
Thankfully it is not a long walk
To Richard Long’s A Line in Norfolk
Indeed it is right outside the front door
I stride out the eighty or so metres
Of Norfolk Carrstone, whose orange clay
Contrasts markedly with Mr Cholmondeley’s
Sparkling green, well-manicured lawn
I wonder if the turf might in fact be laid
On a foundation of such well-weighted stone
Eventually I call this sculpture Number One
And think this is how a drone camera
Might picture it from the sky
After striding its length I meander
To all four corners, to gain some distance
To see another light, to gather another perspective
I remember Richard’s grey slate stones
Laid out onto the top floor of a city centre gallery
And cannot help but think; this is a much better place
Further along I see Full Moon Circle
It is made of a similar material to the one I saw in Leeds
Which I now think rather suited its cosmopolitan surroundings
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Cast In
Stephen Cox’s Interior Space
Does not do it for me
Which is odd, for he has
That ability, that experience
To transport me around the world
But, at this moment in time
Egypt is not where
I would choose to be
Of course, to peer into the darkness
To find myself within the solid mass
In the perusal of nothingness
Well, yes that does enchant
And calms, and if I stayed long enough
I may feel more
I may grow into the recognition
I may even come on board
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Favoured Words
I am left with the remnants
Of James Turrel’s Lightscape exhibition
But fortunately I am led
To a Youtube conversation
Between the lucid artist
And his enquiring patron for the season
They talk of going inside self
With your meditation
(Right up my street)
Light is not formed
Like clay, or wax
Nor sculpted like wood or stone
(Did I tell you I was an Electrical Engineer
Who specialised in lighting)
The rules are different
Paint and light
Do not merge in the same ways
Their resulting colours
Are not in anyway the same
(No, I did not know that)
Using light to create spaces
100 sky spaces are created
Across all the continents
We are made for twilight
Not the bright light of midday
(Really)
Just as in the way that Rothko
Has colour coming out of darkness
Twilight arrives before sunrise
Twilight arrives after sunset
(I always liked Rothko)
The love of how change happens
You, on your island
Have a maritime sky
The softness of which
Is truly beautiful
(I so so agree with his every word)