The Sistine Gaze
Seamus Cashman
Like the Ceiling and Wall to which the poet is lured by Michelangelo's muse, The Sistine Gaze dances between vision and fantasy in words, images and metaphors that are muscular, tangible, sensuous, erotic or at times cold and questioning. The poem's philosophic currents in rhythmic line and verse are meditations on existence in the swell and fall of activity, of changing lives.
The poem's 'gaze' fixes on the creative process as mythologies, the god, the ungodly, and the corporeal luxuriate int he riches of the great Michelangelo's genius. Human certainty, death and the artist at work are central strand, discovering magnificence in the human body and tasting its destiny.
This ekphrastic epic is orchestral, impressionistic, thought-provoking and controversial. Indeed its raison d'être seems elegantly framed in an aphoristic line inviting us, 'To balance life with death and venture bravely to be beautiful.'
Duration - 2h 10m.
Author - Seamus Cashman.
Narrator - Seamus Cashman.
Published Date - Tuesday, 23 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2015 Seamus Cashman ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Like the Ceiling and Wall to which the poet is lured by Michelangelo's muse, The Sistine Gaze dances between vision and fantasy in words, images and metaphors that are muscular, tangible, sensuous, erotic or at times cold and questioning. The poem's philosophic currents in rhythmic line and verse are meditations on existence in the swell and fall of activity, of changing lives. The poem's 'gaze' fixes on the creative process as mythologies, the god, the ungodly, and the corporeal luxuriate int he riches of the great Michelangelo's genius. Human certainty, death and the artist at work are central strand, discovering magnificence in the human body and tasting its destiny. This ekphrastic epic is orchestral, impressionistic, thought-provoking and controversial. Indeed its raison d'être seems elegantly framed in an aphoristic line inviting us, 'To balance life with death and venture bravely to be beautiful.' Duration - 2h 10m. Author - Seamus Cashman. Narrator - Seamus Cashman. Published Date - Tuesday, 23 January 2024. Copyright - © 2015 Seamus Cashman ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:34
Prologue: The Gaze (Verses 1-5)
Duration:00:03:20
The Force That Floats Through Me (Verses 6-12)
Duration:00:02:14
Within The Act (Verses 13-23)
Duration:00:03:39
As Dark and Light Disperse (Verses 24-34)
Duration:00:03:57
I Too Begin With Scaffolding (Verses 35-41)
Duration:00:02:54
The Flowing Moon (Verses 42-48)
Duration:00:02:48
In The Grip of the Uncanny (Verses 49-59)
Duration:00:04:01
We Lie In Wait (Verses 60-64)
Duration:00:01:54
Convinced We Are Awake (Verses 65-67)
Duration:00:01:45
The Cartoon Will Draw Itself (Verses 68-82)
Duration:00:09:17
Beneath The Hard Breath of a Curious God (Verses 83-88)
Duration:00:03:15
Such Beauty and Its Solitude Are Radical (Verses 89-100)
Duration:00:05:41
Why I Find It In My Mind To Paint (Verses 101-112)
Duration:00:06:07
The Centrifuge – Forms I Can Release (Verses 113-116)
Duration:00:02:26
The Elemental Waits Inside (Verses 117-121)
Duration:00:03:24
Beyond Beast and Breast (Verses 122-123)
Duration:00:01:23
Lovers of the Earth (Verses 124-134)
Duration:00:04:59
Excitements of Transience (Verses 135-142)
Duration:00:03:43
I Have My Own Work To Do (Verses 143-149)
Duration:00:04:16
I Had This Dream (Verses 150-161)
Duration:00:06:23
Until We Discover the Next Word (Verses 162-164)
Duration:00:01:48
The Matter Is Temptation (Verses 165-181)
Duration:00:09:54
Look At the Skin (Verses 182-205)
Duration:00:10:37
Approach With Confidence (Verses 206-211)
Duration:00:03:38
When Is To Be Sufficient? (Verses 212-216)
Duration:00:03:26
The Wall is Gone (Verses 217-222)
Duration:00:03:32
Fulfilling Prophecy, Revealing Nothing (Verses 223-232)
Duration:00:05:01
Where Presence Indefinitely Sits (Verses 233-238)
Duration:00:03:25
Dance We Will (Verses 239-240)
Duration:00:01:22
I Think of Michelangelo (Verses 241-248)
Duration:00:05:03
When Sound Reverts to Silence (Verses 249-258)
Duration:00:03:58
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:18