Invited Artist: Brian Alves

Invited Artist: Miriam Bennett

Artist: Sandra Louise Dyas

Melissa Ginsburg’s The Adder reads as a collage of thoughts – dark, moving, and searching.

In this final installment of The Year of the Poet, the program flow and individual videos reflect this stylistic approach.

Imagery includes film, photography, and found footage, and all use music or sound as an equal channel of information to the visual, creating this final body of work that investigates and interprets The Adder.

Melissa Ginsburg, The Adder

May the pond be free

from its companion      pondwater

blackening.       the pond’s edges

slipping             as it does

to the sides     behind

below    a swimming      adder

May the air and the sky be excused

from one another          as a child

from a table       as a table

from its planes the          house from

its frame           Free

garden from dirt

garden

from sprouts waxing

white and long under layers

of mulch            Part spring from cold part

wood from grain part grain part monstrous

shout    Part splinter

from wood          splinter from flesh

Toss it in the fire

divorce fire

from its color its tremble and

its burn

Divorce:          does a door

need a wall to become itself

to separate

from to open to allow

Invited artist: Miriam Bennett

Invited artist: Markus Haala

Artist: LeAnn Erickson

Invited artist: Jeff Caplan

Artist: Sandra Louise Dyas