"Terrible are the momentary facts and our desire goes beyond the hourglasses."

Here is my contribution to the upcoming Poetry Scores event (more information below). My painting "illustrates" the line "Terrible are the momentary facts and our desire goes beyond the hourglasses."

From 7-10 p.m. Friday, November 9, Poetry Scores will host its 8th art invitational where some 50 visual artists make new work based on the same long poem at Mad Art Gallery, 2727 So. 12th St. in Soulard. This invitational responds to "Phantom of the Dreams’ Origin," an excerpt of the first masterpiece of Greek Surrealism, Blast Furnace (1935) by Andreas Embirikos, translated into English by Nikos Stabakis.

The event is free and open to the public; Mad Art will run a cash bar and there will be some free food. The art work will be for sale, with proceeds split evenly between artist, gallery and Poetry Scores, a St. Louis-based non-profit arts organization that translates poetry into other media. Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate in Literature from Nigeria, describes Poetry Scores as “a very special celebration of creative collaboration.”