yes, art can exist in a vacuum.
it doesn’t matter, for instance,
where this road comes from
or where it leads,
or why it’s lavendar.
the fields are plotted,
and the trees have been
planted in wind-breaking rows,
so certain inferences can be drawn
regarding the existence of human
ownership and agricultural employees,
but they ain’t in evidence.
forget sociology.
forget culture.
forget the new or old
historicisms.
even the age of the artist
is absent.
after a century of subjectivity,
of perspective limited to consciousness,
a hundred years of human point-of-view,
it’s refreshing to have
omniscience as an option.
Originally published in Cider Press Review, Volume 1.
