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Josh Pierce // the light in the sky

by Lorin Drexler · Apr 20, 2021

Josh Pierce – Featured Artist

the light in the sky

i’ve stumbled upon a new world
meditating at the edge of the sea
the keys of life reside in their right place
as the flume washes over me
it points west
inward like a triangle
extinguishing its own reflection
 
there is presence of another life form
i follow this beam of light that anchors in from the sky
piercing the clouds that surround it like globs of paint
protruding off a canvas
i am the center
everything is the center
the calm warm breath of life
unseen but heard 
felt
like a quiet sneeze
a diaphanous veil
 
the diamond is the larger geometrical shape
bent by thought
how precious it is and pretends to be
though i notice none in my immediate vicinity 
only spectacular nature uninvolved in itself
these wild thoughts nonetheless carry-through 
hardening and burying themselves
to be retrieved at some other time that's broken
some other point when your heart shatters
into a thousand pieces and all you know is suffering
oh yes it or they or whatever this is pretends very well
 
i do however notice smaller more apparent participants
between the pleading façades
triangles 
that reproduce more triangles
i fit inside them like a box
i am the box
 
i have been traveling on foot
for a year 
searching for something
for anything
to bring me closer and
take me farther
from a world i once knew
and a world that once knew me
but have they noticed
i am from this other time
this other place parallel 
stuck by earthly chains
marauded by the sick and tortured
helpless
pleading
bent to his knees for god
 
human life is a diamond
we are triangles
 
upon these trials
i have written and cut and written more
advancing like space meat equations
but strangely
this paranormal advancement on the existence dilemma
inadvertently makes you less 
and makes you feel less than that
it doesn’t improve your emission
it doesn’t make you better
not kinder
not more evolved
definitely not braver
it only teaches 
that learning and knowing less might be more relevant
to all of it
and knowledge has two paths that are
drastically opposed
and lastly
having predictions makes you that much more predictable
 
wisdom is learned by the symphony of the turtle
not the conductor in the shark
 
i’m hoping to find answers to who i am
i have forgotten this wild assumption
i have been lost in this wilderness
for some time now
and the more you see
the more you travel
the more you tend inward
to understand that knowing yourself
has little to do with who you
think you are
or
anything relevant to anything you for that matter
 
this light appears to be dividing the sky
and splitting the earth
perhaps the two are communicating
the future is here 
in fangs of binary
starlight that beams down in phantom florescence
an unstoppable force mapping intellect of the new world
only to be seen through foresight by the eyes of few
 
the dream is no longer just a dream
it is what is ahead
i am alone to see this
damned and enlightened by the digital hieroglyphs 
subscripted on the insides of the walls
scrying our destiny
telling secrets only gods could hear
and secrets only gods should hear
 
i am silent
as the earth shatters
imprisoned by the diamond
 
by LORIN DREXLER


https://www.joshpierce.net

Visual Artist and Motion Graphics Art Director, Josh Pierce, has quickly become a leader in the emerging digital art space. Pierce focuses on surreal and natural themes, evoking a sense of awe and spiritual calm with his sublime use of color and composition. His primary motif juxtaposes natural environments with abstract energy forms to suggest the presence of the beyond in the here and now.


What is Gen Society?

Gen Society is an art space blog for visual art and creative writing collaborations, and other randomizations. Hosted by writer and musician Lorin Drexler, this online venue is an expressive experience for those interested in the world of the arts. It is a poetic journey through the hearts and minds of contemporary artists in practice and a reflection of those that have long passed.

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