Future Facing Art and Poetry: Sparks that Connect

Greetings!
This is a proposal that Poet Hiram Larew and I have submitted to Montpellier Art Center for an exhibition in their library gallery. Our vision is to weave together two distinct disciplines with multiple thematic inter-sections to explore and create.




Our recipe: 
First take Hiram's amazingly visual poetry!

BETTER SEEDS

Looking up seems early

I’m going to slip outside as soon as

sprigs poke and fences shine

Scout about until you wave me in for breakfast

I’m going to lean into my wishes

Because this is the nickel time of spring

When legs seem longer.

There are better ways of learning

Ways as ready as your bird box

There are better people

Ones who get polished by the wind

And there are better seeds

The kind that wait a year or two.

But it’s hard to wait when everything is curling

When time slips through curtains to let us know

That this chance is more than our pillows

It’s quicker than that

It’s kind of like our neighbor

Who slides a box of kale starts

Onto the porch first thing

Chuckling not to wake us.

And mix in, until well blended my own paintings and installations,

 

Cook til seared on the outside and pink on the inside. 

While hot layer with movement, sounds and color. Serve immediately!