Room 3: The Seagram murals

By poetjude

Wed, 03 Dec 2008
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Faced up to these
transgressed boundaries
you ask which one I’m drawn to;
easier to show than admit
this makes my sinews querulous.

Tether reason to the post,
fight this feeling of asymmetry;
lithium therapy for my Cartesian ghost
may there be no more caravans
of the dispossessed.

There you stand a part
leap into the furious heart-
emotion in the abstract.

Certificate U
Poem
forjdb
Autobiography

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Submitted by lenchenelf on
I haven't visited the Rothko exhibition at the Tate, (is this what you are referring to, I may be going off on one of my infamous tangents ?) but the Imperial War Museum in Manchester has a similar effect "Tether reason to the post, fight this feeling of asymmetry" The space created by Daniel Liebeskind feels intensley disquieting and fractured which I suppose was the architects intention, perhaps too much so, I couldn't get out of there fast enough! Excellent piece, very thought provoking, ta!

 

Submitted by poetjude on
after our visit to the Rothko exhibition at the Tate