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.