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

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Hafnium 72

Archival Pigment Print

12 x 16 inches


Neutrons gone giddy

Hafnium slays the dragon

a slow bleed of veins

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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

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Molybdenum 42

Archival Pigment Print

16 x 12 inches


Pinto kidney red

black navy Molybdenum

mother tongue of beans

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Neptunium 93

Archival Pigment Print

12 x 16 inches


Tide rises tide falls

'tween high boil and melting neap

Neptunium rules

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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
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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

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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


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