“Penelope” (2021)
This collection of works was based on Franklin Rosemont's 1997 version of "Penelope" with added drawings by Jacques Lacomblez. This series of poems feature surreal imagery alongside abstract and fanciful drawings written by Franklin for his wife Penelope. In making these forms, I wanted to create something that was just as absurd and beautiful as the words they hold.
Penelope I
"When your nearness is written in wind on numbers I add up all the ginkgo-trees on the shore and multiply them"
Penelope I
"We are mountains and their music dancing on a pinecone wherever we please"
Penelope V
"All at once when our eyes first met the dizzy forgetfulness in my lonely legs boiled over into the Aurora Borealis"
Penelope VII
"How I love to loiter in the deep crimson awe of your unpremeditated hair"
Penelope IX
"Flying in love we fly eye to eye, deep blue stars below us wide open topaz roads above a round-robin of Hopi Topaz high in the ever-gliding dreamtime"
Penelope XIII
"With the entire biosphere out there for us to dance in what else can we do but tango"
Penelope XIX
"The closer I am to you the more I dance the more maypoles there are the wilder my freedom is"
