prompt:
Your silence is a wall and the wall belongs to a castle. It is a pretty castle on a lovely inviting hill. The countryside is pleasant, even the rolling hills and green meadows around do suggest an inviting scene. The sounds of birds, leaves in the wind, a friendly passer-by, peasants great the stranger hello.
The ruler of the castle must be a friendly one every visitor can see. No guards, no big armor aiming at the approaching rider.
So it has been for many years.
There is a draw bridge all the way up and cutting the path from the outside to the court.
My first time, I am approached friendly keeping respectful distance and looking around.
The draw bridge was up – no way in. But to the left there is a little blue door. Hard to see and almost growing in by woven wine.
Danielle Schönfeld
prompt:
photo: Mary Lee Gosz
5/22/20 Artist Mary Bauermeister (a box in my living room)
A box, a white box with floating circles of glass reflecting and refracting the images layered behind. A 3-dimensional box with floating pencils, colored pencils with sharpened leads of yellow and white and stripes of red, pink, yellow, black, fuschia around the bases. Delicious layers of colored lines all horizontal as the white pencils stand vertically – as if floating. Piano keys and piano notes and graphic words in black also appear haphazardly in wrappings around the pencils. Pencils of varying dimension and length. Some cylindrical, some hexagonal. And along the back and sides of the box are indistinguishable notations resembling key signatures and music scores and also graphs. What keeps the pencils suspended – for these 50+ years in side this box? Beautiful! Whimsical! Pop art by a German woman artist! What a gifted, unique artform. Mary Bauermeister, underappreciated when she made these pieces, but now recognized for the talent she is!!
Mary Lee Gosz
prompt:
photo: Leslie Ava Shaw
You are dead and we decorate your grave with plants. The roots in a pot, can’t ground sitting on a tombstone, the wind has an easy game.
How can I grow on stone, how can I root when you are beneath stone?
We can’t root on stone
Our roots are cut off
When your ancestors are gone
Grow roots, before your forefathers go
Put them in the sound ground
So you can grow
Connect with your source your growing force
once they lay under stone growing connection to your roots is gone.
Danielle Schönfeld