Melanie Morgana (the opening for Montréal artist Melanie Authier's exhibition, 'Contrarieties & Counterpoints')

Melanie Morgana

For the opening of Montréal artist Melanie Authier’s exhibition, “Contrarieties & Counterpoints” (July 16, 2016)

The Artist works her sacred magic

inside crystal caves.

Wands of flat brushes wave

ink of elderberry and linden;

angelica and jasmine upon

her transparent sheet.

Inks twist and fold,

dancing beneath the Artist’s spinning

light, up and over each

other across and through

the page. The cool colours

and patterned dancers

recede into the steps as

their warm, solid partners

spiral forward.

The movement leaps and

jumps around the altar as the

colours search for their counter

points and partners across the

cave’s centre.

Only White is the Artist’s

Résistance: the antagonist

to all her colours. White

blurs the horizon, coming

forward even when all

energies strive to keep it

back:

The only dissident in a room of

unified magical ground seekers.

Change (At the occasion of artist Becky Fixter’s exhibition, “Impermanence” (July 16, 2016))

Change

At the occasion of artist Becky Fixter’s exhibition, “Impermanence” (July 16, 2016)

1. Shift the colours on your page;

and softly coax your reds and purples,

that have concealed themselves

for years beneath

the permanent seams of this life.

Touch them. Glow them. Let their souls

 emerge, and alter your course.

2. Click the innate lights within,

those ancient synapses of the girl

you once were, and still can be.

Flick on that insight in your world,

firing up the lost electricity.

3. Drift to the forgiving music of

the earth, the oregano greens

springing to reach the hanging

cloudy whites in your air of un

certainty.

4. Freefall through puffs of colour:

down through smoke rings of rose,

lilac, snowdrop and pussy willow

grey rising from the primal pipe of

Persephone.

5. Even after years of dark hibernation,

it only takes the flux of alert female

foresight to snap those wandering

fraying fragments of the self into

the authentic route of your path.

(Chatham Artist Becky Fixter)

Change (At the occasion of artist Becky Fixter’s exhibition, “Impermanence” (July 16, 2016))

Change

At the occasion of artist Becky Fixter’s exhibition, “Impermanence” (July 16, 2016)

1. Shift the colours on your page;

and softly coax your reds and purples,

that have concealed themselves

for years beneath

the permanent seams of this life.

Touch them. Glow them. Let their souls

 emerge, and alter your course.

2. Click the innate lights within,

those ancient synapses of the girl

you once were, and still can be.

Flick on that insight in your world,

firing up the lost electricity.

3. Drift to the forgiving music of

the earth, the oregano greens

springing to reach the hanging

cloudy whites in your air of un

certainty.

4. Freefall through puffs of colour:

down through smoke rings of rose,

lilac, snowdrop and pussy willow

grey rising from the primal pipe of

Persephone.

5. Even after years of dark hibernation,

it only takes the flux of alert female

foresight to snap those wandering

fraying fragments of the self into

the authentic route of your path.

(Chatham Artist Becky Fixter)