2015 Secrets of the Elements 4: Time's Arrows
In Opus 4, art and haiku met again at the corner of Aluminum and Radon—where the land yacht sailed and liquid sunshine poured from the ground. Nail polish made Bismuth fingers pretty in pink. Pinto beans talked Molybdenum. Palladium made a paradise for thieves. Copernicium made the earth move. Einsteinium thumbed a ride through time. Gallium melted hearts—in the hand. Gold, real gold, flew on angel’s wings. And tick tickety tock, Caesium turned atomic clocks blue in the face.
Gold 79
Archival Pigment Prints and Mylar Mounted on Wood
42 x 28 inches
Incorruptible
flesh of the angels is Gold
Ask an alchemist
Hafnium 72
Archival Pigment Print
12 x 16 inches
Neutrons gone giddy
Hafnium slays the dragon
a slow bleed of veins
Indium 49
Archival Pigment Print on Vinyl Mounted on Brushed Aluminum
30 x 30 inches
By the brilliance
of his blue scent you’ll know him
pearling incense trails
Poor metal Indium rich
enough to bend a god’s ear
Molybdenum 42
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 12 inches
Pinto kidney red
black navy Molybdenum
mother tongue of beans
Neptunium 93
Archival Pigment Print
12 x 16 inches
Tide rises tide falls
'tween high boil and melting neap
Neptunium rules
Palladium 46 (detail)
Five Direct Impression Prints on Brushed Aluminum
24 x 40 inches
In a paradise
for thieves Palladium Zap
breathes life into air
but Whammo she’s gone girl gone
nicked in a sawn-off minute
Radon 86
Archival Pigment Print on Duratrans Mounted on Lightbox
24 x 18 inches
Hot springs forever
life in a Radon bath Ahhh!
My liquid sunshine
Ruthenium 44
Archival Pigment Prints and Beeswax on Stained Birch and Cherry
50 x 12 x 12 inches
Neither east nor west
here nor there Europaland
dead mittel and edge
Ruthenium’s blood wet hills
no one can find on a map