Tuesday, July 17, 2012

JELLYFISH LAVALAMP


These Jellyfish are part of an installation at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA. The jellyfish reside in a large cylindrical tube that lights up with changing florescent colors in the center of the room. With their slow swimming movements and the bright colors, this exhibit has the same hypnotizing effect of a psychedelic lava lamp.





I want to tell you the ocean knows this,
 that life in its jewel boxes
     is endless as the sand,
 impossible to count,
 pure,
     and among the blood-colored grapes
time has made the petal
     hard and shiny,
made the jellyfish full of light
     and untied its knot,
letting its musical threads fall
     from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl.

     I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
     of human eyes,
 dead in those darknesses,
     of fingers accustomed to the triangle,
longitudes
     on the timid globe of an orange.

     I walked around as you do,
investigating the endless star,
     and in my net,
 during the night,
 I woke up naked,
     the only thing caught,
 a fish trapped inside the wind.
(excerpt from Enigmas by Pablo Neruda)



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