Joy Kreves

THE FLOWER REBELLION “Electrons are the subject of this piece”, I said... "ELECTRON REVOLT no, ... MADNESS..." First they were electrons, moving, crazy, but... they all wanted to be red... I gave them a good title: “Electron Madness”. They had their own ideas, though. Before I knew it they were all turning into flowers... into pretty little things... and soon they were out of control. I struggled. There was a power grab. Yes, there was some violence. They just wanted to manifest Manifest MANIFEST. I tried to discourage them from evolving...BUT they had an impulse To fulfill, a desire, a fate ... they were compelled. “Electrons,” they stated sharply, “are not shy.” I found them too bold- – after all, red is very fierce. (my friend Joan says this.) “Okay,” I said, “but I must maintain control of this piece; I am the artist. So just ONE flower, like an exclamation at the very end. The rest must remain electrons! WelL ... a second flower snuck itself in...and everybody knows you have to have one, three or five, never two or four (unless it’s a very formalist piece.) so now there are five ... All that red was just disturbing, too. It was all blood and strife. Finally I understood,- the flowers taught me this - green always lies beneath red (even symbolically). When I added bits of lively green the whole piece breathed ... relaxed ... sighed. The fire of transformation - GREEN !
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