body mind time
collaborations
concealing
revealing
light line shadow surface trace
inhabitation
reshaped by
fragmented motion
like shadows
like mirrors
reflecting and following
the moon caught shining
left exposed
particles disguised
by outlines
beclouded
by time by futures eclipsed
by the dance of stars
A quadrille for dVerse, where De has provided us with the word star.
K. 
This reminds me of that Canadian film about the aliens and their writing. Those swirls look like intergalactic handwriting.
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“Arrival.” I had that thought too. The movie is based on a short story, “Story of Your Life,” by Ted Chiang. Chiang did a ton of research on linguistics to write his story. I loved the movie, haven’t read the story yet, but it’s on my list.
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That’s right. I knew it was a one-word title. Someone sent me the story and I started it but never finished it. I enjoyed the film but it’s not really the kind of thing I’d read strangely.
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I’ve heard of the author–I’ll have to see if they have the story in the library. A short story is actually something I might find time to read.
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I don’t know the film, but that idea certainly fits both the words and images.
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The graphics are the best bit, I think.
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Hi Kerfe, this is a beautiful contribution to this prompt. I’ve read a few entries to date.
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Thanks Robbie. Stars are always a good topic.
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Beautiful, Kerfe.
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Thanks De.
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The growth, by image, by word, is so organic here. A thread that turns out to be continous, if you will. And one sort of says the other in its own language. Forms regardless, all this works appealingly so, because it says so itself.
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Thanks Neil. I’m always looking for that continuous thread.
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Truly wonderful.
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Thanks Petru.
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I like the way the stanzas stand alone but also lead into the next, and circle back.
Beautiful art, too.
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Thanks Merril.
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You’re welcome, Kerfe.
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I had a thought similar to Jane’s above. Kerfe is communicating with the aliens, and she — and they — can see into the future because they experience time in a completely different way! Beautiful artwork. Is very Zen. Lovely, elegant language.
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Thanks Aletha. I wasn’t thinking necessarily of aliens, but definitely cosmic. I really like the enso, and have done a lot of experimenting with it.
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Enso, yes! very elegant — the aliens bit was kidding.
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They could have hijacked my brain…that would explain a lot of things.
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Oh! How you combined art and verse is stunning!!!
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Thanks Helen!
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enso-tastic
✨🦋🐍🕊🐉🗝⚖🕯🤍⚛🎐🎋🙏✨
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Thank you!
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Well done.
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Thanks Bill.
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Nothing outshines the dance of stars. Love how the first image was transformed into the 2nd. Looks like tiny beautiful pearls on the 2nd one.
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Thanks Jade. I remembered these images and spent awhile looking for them in the archives–they fit perfectly!
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You’re welcome. I like to visualize you looking through your archive and am glad you have space for it at your place.
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Most of the time “the archives” consists of looking through photos from my blog posts. Although my current project is to take all the art in the storage room and photo and organize it. I really don’t know how I accumulated so much of it, especially since I did next to nothing when my children were young.
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One of those projects you might hire a young art college student to help with?
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I like to do things myself. In fact my older daughter was bemoaning the fact she had to manage people now, and I remarked how unsuccessful I was at it. Which is why I was always a (low paid) designer.
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management isn’t for me either but maybe an internship with you would be different. (can you tell I’m shooting from the hip?)
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I doubt it. But thanks for the vote of confidence!
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like like like! 🙂
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Thanks Phil!
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I was so intrigued by your art the poem seemed flow around the images. Very lovely. 🙂
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Thanks Suzanne. I seem to return to the enso again and again.
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Wonderful! I’m so taken by the last piece of art – it fits the poem and holds my attention!!
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Thanks Muri. I’m sorting through my art (where did it all come from?) and I came across that one a few days ago. Serendipitously, it fit my words.
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A mesmerising dance of stars, Kerfe!
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Thanks Ingrid.
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Love the poem and the sketch, K. Love these lines,
“by futures eclipsed
by the dance of stars”
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Thanks. The dances of stars are always welcome!
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Yes it is. 🙂
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Each stanza can stand on its own yet they flow into each other seamlessly and the artwork seems to progress from something shadowy to something delineated with clarity. Otherworldly and beautiful.
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Thanks Punam.
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My pleasure.
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I love how you connect us with cosmos in your poem and art
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Thanks Bjorn.
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Your diagrams quadrille reminded me of the film Starman with Jeff Bridges, Kerfe. My favourite lines:
‘fragmented motion
like shadows
like mirrors
reflecting and following
the moon caught shining’.
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Thanks Kim. It’s interesting that so many find it cinematic. That’s another film I’ve not seen.
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The poetry and art are perfection!
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