đ️ Look Below đ️
For artist Leonard Jubenville, on the occasion of his life’s retrospective exhibition, ‘What Lies Beneath’, Thames Art Gallery (January, 2023).
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Absorbed beneath the visible, sheen of this evolving floe
Genesis of new life, labouring dark and birthing light.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
A river bank, a complex womb, forging, feeding
through the opaque gloom.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Beneath green pears, lie limpid brown; ripening fruit and Summer’s down.
Sun-dried laundry covers warm, moist soap scented of the foundry’s mint.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Fall leaves foster fresh new shoots - amaryllis, gladioli
and velvet suits.
Across the furrowed fields evolve, the living gestating resolve.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Seams left on a marble snowscape, guide us to our Winter’s feed.
As it is, beneath the surface, in all dark patches of our sphere –
everything important lies below the toiling gloss of rich and full.
