Sunrise From An Airplane

The 3 pieces are paintings of a sunrise viewed from an airplane (2026). They are accompanied by poems exploring how reality shifts from one space to another across a threshold, allowing us to move differently in the new space and revealing how our internal and external perceptions are magnified and blown beyond their limits. Poems the courage it takes to cross a threshold nothing and everything is a preparation to enter the new space the sun shines differently its colors a hue of pink and purple to cradle the intensity of transformation Cells morph bones crack and shift membranes stretch tissues twist and unravel A deeper knowledge sets in a person leaves an identity pulls itself away fluidity blubbers through definition disappears humility invites transparency then the moment happens crossing the threshold the new space welcomes what is yet to become *** Between the what was and what will be lies a space where time hangs differently hours and days crash into each other a disappearance of a point of reference Such spaces of the in-between stretch and amplify uncomfortable aspects sometimes sleep comes as a savior sometimes discipline learned slowly simmers in the pot and dries up to crack all that held a life together The temptation to hold on to memories and past victories the temptation to dread what will befall ahead until the importance of moving through washes over all the fears a weed flowers in a cemented walkway a branch greening in a scorched land a bird's song inhabiting the night life knows how to enter under the skin it creates a metamorphosis of being chains melt away like rendered fat in a cauldron meant for a new feast Time and space in between become the way, the truth, the life stripping away what stops serving the fates They create what is needed a readiness and a sharpness to enter the untold the yet unwritten.