SLC Foster Art Program

Over the past few of months I have had the opportunity to participate in the SLC Foster Art Program as a recipient. I selected a painting by Thomas Aaron. The painting was one of a series and dealt with the abstraction of urban form and spontaneous creation. As part of the series, local authors produced poems that coincided with each painting, below is the corresponding poem entitled "A Mystical Experience".

Sadly, today I have to give the painting back. There is no doubt that there will be a void not easily filled in our dining room and in the lives of my children, who love this painting.



A Mystical Experience
Ethan William Higbee

So at last the ignitions of energies burst inside confinements of worries, like walls and the warped eyes of defeat, douse themselves to keep warm, but still they have cold feet.

Oh Urania, Pure harmonium of stars, planets and oh, the orbit of moons. Saying,

"Come. Come young starlit man.
Breathe truth's light
And sing like a Vonnegut."

"One like any other.
Lost to the forces
of Tralfamadore."

But it is difficult, oh dearest of mine. It is hard for humans to see pure light. Our eyes lack the medium, or the canvas, in which to paint such visions. We are blindnesses walking through your kingdom and we are bloody weak. Our bones don not flex, they only fit a forespoken structure.

Oh lack of medium and dearest Urania.