Our civilised modernity is baroque…
value of form follows function subverted.
The arts as social critique caught in a choke.
Suppressed by consumers’ desires perverted.
Loaded with competing meanings, each bespoke.
Life’s stuff so exuberantly asserted.
We crave surprise to achieve a sense of awe…
colourful contrast, movement…status galore.
Baroque World (29/11/2018) in Planetary Shifts, a poetic journey through post-normal times.
Inspired by and written on the 400th year of Bartolome Esleban Murillo, a Spanish Baroque Painter. The privilege of the 21st century uber-rich is reminiscent of the extravagant, eclectic Baroque period. Modernity’s precise form and function usurped.
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