Our Paradise Lost
Poet Rodger Martin of the faculty at Narragansett Regional High School and Keane State College has been invited by the Chapel Art Center of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. to collaborate with visual artist Adrienne La Vallee to create an installation piece entitled " Our Paradise Lost."
The work opened with a reception as part of the faculty exhibit on Thursday, November 6, 1997, from 6 - 9 p.m. in the gallery of the Chapel Art Center.
The work includes poetry, painting, and sculpture that links parallels between the European cultural shock from discovering the new world in the sixteenth century to the American cultural shock of the new worlds discovered as we enter the 21st century.
Sample lines from "Olmec":
....Eagle corporate papa
dogs, director-feathered,
board-room majestic preen in three-piece greed.
Their talons reach even here and turn to snakes
squeezing hearts through the mouths of billions.
Magic brokers, mighty achievers, (like Olmec, like Toltec,
like Mexica they strut before the altar of the bill...
More samples are available by clicking the links below:
Selection #1
Selection #2
See the project description and exhibit photos!