Art Objects: Jeanette Winterson

The earth is not flat and neither is reality. Reality is continuous, multiple, simultaneous, complex, abundant and partly invisible. The imagination alone can fathom this and it reveals its fathomings through art.

The reality of art is the reality of the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson. Art [Objects]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

 

Messenger: Mary Oliver

My work is loving the world.

Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird-

Equal seekers of sweetness.

Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?

Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me

Keep my mind on what matters,

Which is my work,

Which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

The phoebe, the delphinium.

The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.

Which is mostly rejoicing, since all the ingredients are here,

Which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart

And these body-clothes,

A mouth with which to give shouts of joy

To the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,

Telling them all, over and over, how it is

That we live forever.

Mary Oliver.

Emily Dickinson

To the faithful absence is condensed presence.

 To the others—

but there are no others

Emily Dickinson. Letters to Susan Dickinson.

Eu, o Povo: Mutimati Barnabé João

Eu, o Povo

Conheço a força da terra que rebenta a granada do grão

Fiz desta força um amigo fiel.

 

O vento sopra com força

A água corre com força

O fogo arde com força

 

Nos meus braços que vão crescer vou estender panos de vela

Para agarrar o vento e levar a força do vento à Produção.

As minhas mãos vão crescer até fazerem pás de roda

Para agarrar a força da água e pô-la na Produção.

Os meus pulmões vão crescer soprando na forja do coração

Para agarrar a força do fogo na Produção.

 

Eu, o Povo

Vou aprender a lutar do lado da Natureza

Vou ser camarada de armas dos quatro elementos.

A tática colonialista é deixar o Povo ao natural

Fazendo do Povo um inimigo da Natureza.

 

Eu, o Povo Moçambicano

Vou conhecer as minhas Grandes Forças todas.