Homegrown: For the 2016 Thames Art Gallery Homecoming

Homegrown

On the occasion of the Thames Art Gallery’s ‘Homecoming’ exhibition (January 23, 2016)

This January Gust of

Inertia has brought

you

home

to the Tender Stems

of your

   Beginnings.

It was here that

Mirror Mirror

showed you Odysseus

through Polyphemus’

silk-spun eyes;

or told

  fairy tales

each night before

a lush sleep,

like little Katzman

watercolours jigging

beside your crib.

Having your

‘Head served on a Platter’

only happened

in distant lands

like Kathmandu

or, god forbid,

Toronto.

No here, at home,

with these Small

Monuments to

your childhood

tales, you

transform the portrait

of whom you once

were to

who you are

now.

Here, your

two halves

share the same canvas,

both selves focused on

   immediate

 intentions.

Two beings:

looking you

straight in the eye

of home.