Newspaper columns stuck on four walls. Newspaper columns stuck on four walls.
Newspaper columns stuck on four walls. Newspaper columns stuck on four walls.
Brushstrokes raged thick against the canvas.
Trapped in a snapshot of paint.
Dim light carved the room away from the rest of the gallery. Gloominess weighed in the air. Deep red blended to mauve and shifted to autumn.
A Projector s t r e t c h e d across the wall.
Reel whirled on a loop. Sea wind came through the film and filled the room.
O p e n s p a c e circulated the b r e e z e.
Everything is done in unison; each moment is the same, every task completed twice.
Everything is done in unison; each moment is the same, every task completed twice.
Swallowed by routine, dictated by conduct, prescribed by actions.
Silhouettes cast over the screen. SCREAM! From another room.
Shard of light from
down
the passage,
dragged by the
escalator.
A woven tunnel.
Layers the ground have welded and
underneath jointed together
JiGsAw of scapes in a gallery. Collage.
Teenage GIGGLES filled the room.
Scandal floated pass the wine bottles.
SCREECHING from behind the bar.
Chalked bottles on exhibit.
Exchanged nameless tales of hearsay.
Anonymous silhouettes dAnCeD.
No names.
No faces.
Jessica Patient is the winner of the Worldskills UK Creative Writing competition 2008. She has had several flash stories published on Six Sentences and poems published in anthologies. Jessica is currently working on several short stories and is trying to write a novel. She has a blog: www.writerslittlehelper.blogspot.com. She lives in Bedfordshire, England.
5 Responses to “ADVENTURES IN AN ART GALLERY • by Jessica Patient”
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November 14th, 2008 at 3:31 am
I would like to point out that this had a rather less regular shape to it. For instance: Bet this doesn’t work…
Shard of light from
down
the passage,
dragged by the
escalator.
Is supposed to look like a stair.
But Jessica was good enough to allow us to put it up ccentred and we appreciatew that Jessica.
Jessica’s poem reminded me so much of exhibitions I’d been to all over the place and The Tate Modern in particular. Thank you Jessica – a wonderful poem!
November 14th, 2008 at 3:32 am
You see…I said it wouldn’t work! All right…
Shard of light from
……………….down
…………………..the passage,
…………………………….dragged by the
………………………………………..escalator.
Now subtract the dots – see?
November 14th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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November 15th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Thanks for pointing that out, Oonah! I was going to do it, but you beat me to it.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I appreciated the shapes, enjoyed the originality and the work that had gone into it. It made me THINK… thanks.