Somatic Blinds, 2023
The Ruth Foster Gallery at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire is hosting Exchanges: dialogues between poetry and art
This exciting juried exhibition consists of both visual and literary art; poets writing original poems inspired by a selection of professional visual artworks, and visual artists creating original works inspired by a selection of professional poems.
The poem Somatic Blinds by Bin Youn is selected, resonating with the painting Timberline by Scott Greene.
Somatic Blinds
I was found and lightened so as not to be rotten.
I need to be exposed to light from nowhere to fold and unfold.
The colors and lines from the shiny source surround my eyeballs
penetrate my skin like a gas.
I need to be exposed to light from nowhere to fold and unfold.
The colors and lines from the shiny source surround my eyeballs
penetrate my skin like a gas.
After cutting up my roots from whoever-whatever,
I got stuck by all the burden.
Throwing myself away to be fallen and settle down somewhere
with nobody is alienating my every part.
I got stuck by all the burden.
Throwing myself away to be fallen and settle down somewhere
with nobody is alienating my every part.
It needs to be closed to open and open to close.
The windowless blinds are for your inside and outside.
Intervals between colors and lines overlap with your wrinkles.
It is desperate to be exposed and developed.
The windowless blinds are for your inside and outside.
Intervals between colors and lines overlap with your wrinkles.
It is desperate to be exposed and developed.
Living out of my motherland, losing my mother tongue
having a bite of fatal pomegranate like Proserpine did.
It signifies for her captivity and marriage,
and the incense-burner, the attribute of goddess.
having a bite of fatal pomegranate like Proserpine did.
It signifies for her captivity and marriage,
and the incense-burner, the attribute of goddess.
It is a process to detach m from mother to be another.
Aging,
I am limited,
getting closer to the pointy edges reluctantly
within a cycle
moving
I am limited,
getting closer to the pointy edges reluctantly
within a cycle
moving
My gesture
to scan and project
resuscitate and embrace lost empty time.
a trajectory to navigate spacetime with ambient colors
to scan and project
resuscitate and embrace lost empty time.
a trajectory to navigate spacetime with ambient colors
