Public Artwork
The Boreal Poetry Garden
Artwork creator(s):
Creates, Marlene
Text author(s):
Creates, Marlene
Installation year:
2005 Description:
Site-specific poems hand-written on card and installed temporarily for photographing. The Boreal Poetry Garden is also presented as live-art events with walks and on-site readings, including longer poems.
Text of the artwork:
(Incomplete text)
Clumps of snow rolling
Down from boughs and snowshoe
Have-crossing point last night
Glowing ruby line
On the thermometer is
Short-ice candles
Off the Atlantic,
Snow by reeves coating east
Side of trees; pitching in drifts
On the west
What made those big prints
In the snow last night?
Oh yes, clumpers from branches
Artwork theme:
The Boreal Poetry Garden commemorates fleeting moments of the artist's interaction with the land where she lives. Dimensions:
Height:
0.76m
Width:
0.51m Note(s):
"The brief texts reflect some of the site’s particular geophysical and climatic characteristics, its plant life, wildlife and social history, and my experiences here. For me, the location of the words in the specific spot to which they refer is fundamental to the radiating energy of their meaning and, of course, their beauty. The place I inhabit is both wondrous and constantly changing, which, I know, entails loss. My cosmology, I suspect, is basically elegiac."
Marlene Creates, 2005
Marlene Creates's Web site (2008). Marlene Creates
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