The photo below shows computer-generated art by Silver Spring artist Allen Hirsh -- and, beside it, a framed version of the poem mentioned above. Our work was exhibited together at last summer's BRIDGES and MAA conferences. A clearer presentation of Hirsh's art -- "An Outgrabed Mome Rath" -- is available here. My poem is presented below, beneath the photo.
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| Hirsh's painting and the poem it inspired |
The Disposition of Art by JoAnne Growney
written in response to “An Outgrabed Mome Rath" by Allen Hirsh
my poetry teacher said everythingconnects
my physics teacher said nothing
is a vacuum
and the Queen said sometimes
I’ve believed
six impossible things
before breakfast
the artist said if equations
can predict the weather
then equations
can recycle Fritos wrappers
into paintings
it is true that Stein said a rose
is a rose
but the windmill is tilting and Jabberwocky
is a Looking-glass poem
‘Twas brillig Humpty Dumpty said
And in the wabe those slithy toves
and mome raths outgrabe
when I say a rational number can always be expressed
as a ratio of integers
someone always
doesn’t understand
Humpty Dumpty chooses what words will mean
and will pay a word extra
if it means a great deal
a picture means a thousand words
Humpty Dumpty, open your purse.
Our Hirsh-Growney contribution to BRIDGES consisted of three painting-poem pairs. Text for all three of the poems is available here.
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