Beforeword; I had the privilege to visit Mona Museum, in Hobart, Tasmania, which is mostly underground. It has a playful vibe with old and new art. One new art is the muse for this piece—“Breath of Life.”
The art is a complex constellation by Tomás Saraceno called A Thermodynamic Imaginary captured, in part, in my photos below, including one that reflects the images of those observing it, emblematic of the intersection of art and life.
Saraceno’s fragile hand-blown aerial sculptures, mirror reflections, intersections and video projections ask you to imagine a new future: the Aerocene, ‘an era of the air’, a world of solar energy ‘free from carbon and extractivism’, where life and breath are attuned to Earth’s systems rather than at war with them and where anthropocentric entitlement has no place. This is my poetic rendition to this imagined world and in honor of the Palawa people of lutruwita (Tasmania), whose deep and enduring connection to Country—land, waters, skies, and spirit—continues to shape and sustain life.
Breath of Life
New life begins in Aerocene
Where gravity loosens its grip
Humans unlearn the weight of stay
No ownership, only orbit
No engines, only breath
Lungs, rivers, wings
Everything inhales, exhales together
There are no borders here
Equity and equality quells
The hands that clenched too tightly
Nothing is taken
Because nothing is kept
Everything passed
Warm, bright, alive
Humans no longer extract,
But at one with nature
Maps dissolve
Humanity move as shifting kinships
Connecting as one breath
History is a shed skin
Afterword: Also contributing to this week’s W3 hosted by David. The Poet of the Week, Yvette, invites us to create a poem that explores a fictional world in 20 lines.
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