Today we had a lecture from the head of the visual art department,
Simeon Nelson
titled, "Kosmos"
which is a greek word meaning,
ornament, jewel, world organized system or structure
The lecture focused on patterns in nature and how they are often mirrored in culture.
My favorite part of the lecture was when we talked about the distance between stars and how ordinary things can be seen as extraordinary to others.
James Hillman, The Practice of Beauty
"Suppose we were to imagine that beauty is permanently given, inherent to the world in its data, there on display always, a display that evokes an aesthetic response. This inherent radiance lights up more translucently, more intensively within certain events, particularly those events that aim to seize it and reveal it, such as artworks." "The artist, of course, does indeed reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary. That is the job - not to distinguish and separate the ordinary and the extraordinary, but to view the ordinary with the extraordinary eye of divine enhancement."
I was inspired to write this poem after this lecture:
"Between Stars"
Directly in the center
of infinite space
floating in the distance
between the stars
there is a darkness you never before
new existed
The blackness envelopes your surroundings
almost entirely
But there is a pattern
Even in this construct we call Space
There is a faint glimmer
in the distance
A pattern of stars
Almost a direct replica
of the freckles in your eyes
As the distance melts
and becomes measurable
The light pierces through
the billowing black
The light streaking through
reminds you that this design
is not elusive to you
The same hands that formed each star
and the distance between
Shaped the curves of your face
and fills the depths of your heart
Those who try to measure this distance
do not understand
There is no space between you and God.
-By me,
Lacée De Grasse
