Most of the planets were
named after gods of an empire since extinct, while the cosmos
continues to evolve. We are left with one God and STEM with
no roots, driven by figures
cold as the void and arrogant as a star
on the cusp of imploding.
Then it sent
forth a Light shining through
space into the future,
skirting
the
horizons of
black
holes; dazzling astronomers, physicists,
even a few poets, artists and musicians.
Contrary to
Jupiter's toxic unbreathable air and swirling
storms, Earth has
a blue/green/
brown/black inquisitive eye by
means of its own inner articulations. Neural
receptors in the
joints turn them into sense organs, registering
geometric relations to the
ground and to the
force of gravity by the relative position of
the bones. The system links
bones and extremities
to the environment and innumerable
gradients in-between.
Cézanne
stopped drawing boundaries, letting blank space find itself,
the terra
incognita.
Giacometti died while still trying to draw a nose, knowing its
appearance is not the nose.
How can we not
become our own Frankenstein, animate beings motivated by inanimate
bits and pieces?