An Unholy Alchemy of Colour, by John Paul Caponigro

Homage to the World, by Louise Nevelson (USA) 1966

An Unholy Alchemy of Colour

An unholy alchemy of colour unfolds,  
green turns red turns black;  
enflamed cathedrals become tombs.

Charging skies with temporary stars,  
forest spires smoke clouds. 

Disassemble leaf from limb from trunk,  
tumble into the ashes of others, wait for wind. 

Black wood crossed and uncrossed,  
left unturned no ember, no spark, no breeze. 

The same process iterates,  
each generation more distorted.

Recreation makes waste holy, 
 no vines, just nails, some invisible glue,
the smell long gone.

Severed roots grow into another inside 
once dirt no longer but soon.

Reassemble, knotted, twisted, cut, lift walls of silence,  witness the shadows within shadows.

Plan no plan, unplan architect of darkness. 
Any form other than fallen will do.

The same forms iterate, 
each generation more distorted.

​John Paul Caponigro

John Paul Caponigro is an internationally collected visual artist and published author. He leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants creatively make deeper connections with nature and themselves. View his TEDx and Google talks at johnpaulcaponigro.com.