{"id":32569,"date":"2016-02-29T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=32569"},"modified":"2016-03-08T00:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:13:46","slug":"the-conversation-a-poem-by-jody-plant-on-the-spiral-jetty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-conversation-a-poem-by-jody-plant-on-the-spiral-jetty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversation: a poem by Jody Plant, on the Spiral Jetty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1456796639886_371388\">This Friday, Representative Becky Edward&#8217;s bill HB 134 to name Spiral Jetty the &#8220;State Work of Art&#8221; will be heard in the Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee.At 8:00 am on Friday, March 4, HB 134, State Work of Art, will be heard in the Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee. The bill began as a school project and Edwards will be arguing why the bill\u00a0 &#8220;makes sense and is important for Utah and for the arts, tourism, and scientific community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, the joint exhibition by Jody Plant and Frank McEntire that opens at Finch Lane Gallery (6-8 pm) may provide material support for the bill. In <em>Double Vision<\/em> the two artists use assemblage to combine an exploration of the four classical elements of earth, wind, fire and water with an evocation of a fifth, a transcendent, fleeting element conjured up in the studio. One work on display is Plant&#8217;s &#8220;The Conversation,&#8221; inspired by Robert Smithson&#8217;s Spiral Jetty and accompanied by the following poem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32570\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation-972x1024.jpg\" alt=\"theconversation\" width=\"400\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation-972x1024.jpg 972w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation-900x948.jpg 900w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The conversation continues<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a soul retrieval mission<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ten miles on a dirt road<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">completely off the grind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">out there only vast solitude<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">gulls fly in DNA formations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">other murmurations occur too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Spiral Jetty is otherworldly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a walking meditation,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">stonehenge, woodhenge<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">shape shifters appear and disappear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ghosts of time and salt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On the playa underfoot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">mostly concealed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">veins of lightning struck crystals<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">glimmer a mirage of wonders,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">fractal spiral spellbound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We call in the elements<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from the four directions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">bidding our ancestors<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a stones throw away abyss<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">souls take flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A time travelers incantation uttered<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we are lost and found in silence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">divided between worlds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we know the jetty will keep us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we know where to disappear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Double Vision, featuring assemblages by Jody Plant and Frank McEntire opens at <a href=\"http:\/\/saltlakearts.org\/program\/finch-lane-galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Finch Lane Gallery<\/a> Friday, March 4th, 6-8 pm, and continues through April 15. Plant will be the subject of our Artist Profile in the March edition of 15 Bytes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, Representative Becky Edward&#8217;s bill HB 134 to name Spiral Jetty the &#8220;State Work of Art&#8221; will be heard in the Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee.At 8:00 am on Friday, March 4, HB 134, State Work of Art, will be heard in the Senate Economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14],"tags":[96,99,2127],"class_list":["post-32569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-arts","category-visual_arts","tag-finch-lane-gallery","tag-frank-mcentire","tag-jody-plant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/theconversation.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-14 09:49:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32627,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions\/32627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}