Jeffree Skewes #1 Silk on the Road - a prelude

The sacred always hid it's true meaning

even when glittering pages, walls and statues

the ringing bells or solemn Latin

conspire to blind acuity

until the journey toward it's room

singularity or by luck is excavated

do candles, flowers and incense appear

reborn, mulled and promising

the journey begins

while in a kind of darkness

only a youth would conjure

beyond forests, seas and deserts

crackling onstage timbers buck

no audience is listening

plateau after plateau reached

only actors remain

nothing can be said

of despair left behind

it was nothing

there is no turning back

Grace puffs a sweet fugitive perfume

trailing whispers of adventure so magnificent

silk paves these endless roads

on a pilgrim's journey

image: Silk on the Road installation maquette detail 1. desert sand rice paper silk synthetic polymer paint ink clay flower petals / jskewes