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is that it was snowing at Tippet Rise, and the young French pianist Julien Brocal was visiting. He wrote
a piece for himself and the young violinist Caroline Goulding called Snowing on the Moon, which in turn inspired me to write a poem, and both the piece and the poem were made into a film by Mickey Houlihan and Kathy Kasic, using footage from NASA, reflect- ing planets on the Calder sculpture Stainless Stealer. Calder thought of his mobiles as solar systems, so we projected planets on his metal wings. The film is on our website, and is called Stainless Stealer Steals the Universe, because its reflecting steel absorbs the NASA footage and reflects it back, the way Timon of Athens accused everything of being a thief:
The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
(Timon of Athens, Act IV, scene iii)
Baudelaire has said that nature is a forest of metaphor, where the symbols of words, scents, and colors become flesh.
So there’s a sense of metaphor, of poetry, to music
and sculpture at Tippet Rise. Metaphor is a bridge; it’s the space between sound and sky, between music in the air and concrete structures on the land.
At Tippet Rise, we’re trying to make our values visible, for our grandchildren, for everyone’s grandchildren, and for the world.
We’re trying to make poetry come true: the correlations, the conspiracies, among place, music, and art that pass the human spirit into the future.
At the end of this essay is one of three translations of Baudelaire’s poem Correspondances, which illus- trates some of this. To explicate some of its images:
Leaves are snapshots of the summer. Their
ragged edges trace the summer, as we ourselves are tracings of our passage through books, movies, and meadows. The reality of a photograph bcomes imaginary as the photo fades and becomes more of a trick Escher illusion. The dying leaves of autumn are summer’s shadow, its ectoplasm, spread out on the ground, accidental documentaries which bring the phloem and xylem of a tree,
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