13 Etznab
White Cosmic Mirror
Degradation of the Human Race
Has reached its full
Completion
In all of Nature’s
vast Display
Variety and Beauty indescribable
There is one Face
extraordinary –
Innocence made
visible
I sing of the
northern Infants
Slaughtered for
their Fur –
Such a Prize – such
a bloody Boon
For the Hunter
These Babes are easy
Prey
Too young to swim
away –
Heads shattered –
skinned alive
Left to die in agony
In front of their
Mothers
Enormous dark Eyes
mirror
Man’s Inhumanity –
Cruelty – Insanity
Lifeless, skinless
babies’ Bodies
Thrown away to rot
Upon the Snow and
Ice
Now stained with Blood
and Gore
No more!
The Harp Seal –
Striking Beauty
In a barren Wilderness
Struck down - bludgeoned
to Death
For a Wallet or Coat
Beware! All who
participate
Beware! All who fail to
protest -
The Slaughter of
Innocents
Goes not unpunished.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Ellen Banks, The Pose II.
Ellen Banks (June 7, 1938 - May 18, 2017) is an African-American painter and multi-media artist using only printed musical scores as inspiration for her paintings.
Biography
Born in Boston, Banks spent her childhood exploring both painting and music and was inspired by Piet Mondrian. Banks received her bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts College of Art, studying also at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1962. Only five years later, in 1967, she received the Prix de Paris. Her work has been widely exhibited. Since 1981 she has been using musical scores as the visual basis for her work.
Career
Banks began her career in 1962 with her first solo gallery. In addition to her formal education at the Massachusetts College of Art, Banks received training from César Domela and Hans Jaffé. She has drawn inspiration from only printed musical scores since 1981. She refers to herself as "a representational painter of abstracts forms", and her unique work has been featured in galleries across the United States and Europe including Galerie Spandow, Artu Gallery, and Museum of Modern Art (NYC). She taught painting courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston (1974-1996), where she garnered a number of awards as well as grant funding. Banks has been based in Brooklyn for much of her career.*
ETZNAB
Kin 78: White Cosmic Mirror
I endure in order to reflect
Transcending order
I seal the matrix of endlessness
With the cosmic tone of presence
I am guided by the power of spirit.
As we enter deeper into telepathic civilization we will increasingly understand that mathematical ratios govern the psychic and inter-psychic sense experiences..*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Sahasrara Chakra (Dali Plasma)
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