Patterns

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