August 2023

Untitled #07

Painting

The Art of David Wiley

Writing

Affirmation of a Submarine Empire

 

           In the clairvoyant's vision of Atlantis

      there are pedestals, columns

  and fallen entablatures

in a deep sea scene without life.

That would be too much

       like a movie property; everyone

knows that movies are fake.

 

                      If there is a real Atlantis

                     at the bottom of a real sea

              it must look a lot like the castles

         that people put in their aquariums

       for the pleasure and mystification

of the disbelieving goldfish.

 

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Lissa Tyler Renaud

David Wiley painter-poet: graduate of U. Kansas; studied at Mexico City College and with artist Ignacio Belen in Barcelona. Widely traveled, he exhibits throughout California and abroad. Wiley has published two volumes of poetry: Designs for a Utopian Zoo (1992) and The Face of Creation (1996). Since 2005, Wiley has received large mural commissions in Arizona, Mexico and California. Wiley is a longtime contributor to Scene4: paintings, poems, meditations on art, creative non-fiction.
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