Nowhere To Go But Around/Thursday Doors

Time changes space.
Space revises what is unseen.
Time changes space.
Circles mirror, echo, retrace
here into there and then between.
Waves spiral, wheel, return again.
Time changes space.

I recently went to the Guggenheim Museum to see the Orphism exhibit. Robert Delaunay’s circular canvases were a highlight. But the museum itself is such an interesting building, and of course I had doors in mind.

One of the side galleries had a small Mondrian exhibit, tracing the evolution of his painting. That’s his photo on the right, and an unusual landscape I had never seen before flanking the exit on the left.

Every layer you spiral up inside the museum gives a different point of view into what is below. This is the gift shop with the exit door from two different vantage points.

I’d never gone into the Ada Simon Reading Room before. On the left is the entrance, and on the right is the entrance/exit from inside the room. It once was a storage room, but is now an interactive creative space.

There were two scrap poetry boards, and visitors were invited to add something of their own. I added two words to “open sea illuminated”–“in peace”.

I was pleased to see Chagall’s “The Great Wheel” in person–Melissa used it for a W3 prompt, and I did my own interpretation, on the right.

And there was also a wonderful Mamie Jellet painting, below, in the Orphism exhibit. She was the subject of a Kick About prompt, for which I did a circle response, although I had not seen this work before. That’s my collage, on the right of the painting.

Of course I have a lot more photos. There was really too much art for me to take in all at once though. I think the exhibit is there for awhile, so maybe I’ll get a chance to go back.

It’s finally looking and feeling like winter. That’s Central Park, viewed from inside the museum.

My poem is a rondelet, Lady Lee’s W3 prompt form for this week.

And look for more doors, as always, at Thursday Doors, hosted by Dan Antion.