Reach Ruin, at the Fabric Workshop Museum

From the "Reach Ruin" Gallery at the Fabric Works Museum in Philadelphia. An anagram for "hurricane," The artist, Daniel Arsham, was greatly influenced by the "construction of destruction"

Pillars made alien like 50’s sci-fi sets glisten and curve upward,
scintillating with broken glass infrastructures,

Suggest the soft sting of anemones stretching toward,

The quick plain above thick and fluid depths and sea floor.
Further, deeper back, the wall bursts inward,

Where more glaucous glass inards,

Reveal caverns pregnant with throbbing light.

Sounds of great dreams and pain cry,

Into the world from the other side.

Something inside tumesces,

And wind breaths out of the cresses,

And into the world, and on me.

Light flashes through billows of broken glass clouds.

It heaves faster and faster,

The womb of glass and plaster,

Generates an opera from its hidden depths,

That storms out from that place beyond,

Filling the room with Viking Gods,

And their fate struck lovers and warriors.

 

The dark and beautiful beyond the wall.

 

What new mystery of walled-off rooms,

The potential grandeur of man made wombs,

“Life is the answer to an eternal call,”

 I think, waiting for the thought to find its way out.

The amorphous blackness brooding,

Discharges itself from the other side.

And there,

Composed of the shattered frames from which all this came,

From which the art was made,

Is a thinker sitting on a pillar of plaster-hidden glass,

Pondering his mortality and pain,

And wondering from whence he came,

And what he is.

Author's Note

If you're in the Philadelphia are, the Fabric Workshop Museum is definitely worth checking out.

Reviews

[Pax]

Life is the answer to an eternal call
~ great words...
very descriptive poem, enjoyed it.