does what I construct
from what I see
fit the idea
of me?
can I be mirrored
repeated copied
multiplied
contained in reflection–
momentary glimpses–
light entering
eye?
translating possibility
into something visible,
manifest–
always an after
to an image as
elusive as
before
For both of this week’s dVerse prompts, from Mish (eye) and De (quadrille of possibilty).
There was a time when I did many many eye collages, and the illustrations here are from about seven years (and many lifetimes) ago. These are both good prompts, and I still have some ideas…
K. 
To me this and that mandate that the answers to each of your questions is yes and no — or no and yes. Your eyes mesmerize, from the fractal to what looks like a flying critter. I also *love* that Peter Gabriel song!
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Thanks Jade. The answers to most of our questions seem to be both yes and no. I did a lot of collages with body parts in that era of my life. I still have collage boxes full of them in storage.
I forgot how much I like Peter Gabriel. He puts on a good show too from the concert performances on YouTube.
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I think the idea of boxes of body parts in storage is a great seed for a poem 😉
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Feel free to explore it…
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🙂 Thanks!
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I love your artwork and poem, diving into introspection, the question of oneself:
can I be mirrored
repeated copied
multiplied
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Thanks Grace. We seem to spend a lot of time trying to figure out who we are.
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Wow, these are some trippy, cool images! I love the Peter Gabriel song (reminds me of the movie “Say Anything). Enjoyed your words. Thanks for the fun prompt mashup.
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Thanks De. I enjoyed putting all the elements together.
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really love your contemplative questioning and your eye collages are magnificent!
beautiful song
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Thanks Kate. It’s interesting how our art changes with our life. It should, anyway.
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it should, but also our skills and insights get better honed too Kerfe
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Perception taints (or enhances?), yet most often we have to be sure of the truth we perceive.
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I first read your comment as perception taunts…it does that too. What we see is not always what we get.
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Amazing collages that complement your poem, and vice versa, and thanks for the burst of Peter Gabriel, Kerfe! I like to think we are ‘translating possibility / into something visible’ here at the Poets Pub.
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Thanks Kim. We are trying anyway. I’ve never seen Peter Gabriel live, but I ended up watching part of a concert after finding this song, and he is someone whose music is definitely enhanced in performance.
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The whole idea of who we are, if it’s the same as what we look like, and how do we know what we look like to other people? Are they right, the camera eye, the memory? So many people in one one idea of perception.
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I think we are too many people to figure out really. But at the same time in order to function we have to integrate them in some way. And if we can’t then we come up with a fancy name and try to find some drugs that will do it for us.
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Not to mention all the disorders that that we can put names to.
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Amazing work: both the weaving of the two prompts into one poem and the collages, Kerfe. I especially love the eye collage, that’s fantastic!
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Thanks Ingrid. I have quite a few eye collages in my work from that time. Artwork with eyes and hands always gets my attention.
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Love this so much, Kerfe, these weighty thoughts, expressed in profound simplicity: that last stanza shows us all how complexity can be reduced to brevity and clarity and still resound with poetic beauty:
“always an after
to an image as
elusive as
before”
❤️❤️❤️
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Thanks Dora. I’m glad it resonated with you.
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Thought-provoking. I really enjoyed the inquiry in your poem, the collaboration of prompts and your collages…wow! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Mish.
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I love this… if you contemplate and look deeper you will learn more, but the kaleidoscopic view is perfect as a metaphor.
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Thanks Bjorn.
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Love the artwork! We wonder how people see us, and the eyes, for me, is the first thing I notice.
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Thanks. I agree, eyes tell us a lot.
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