An Interview with Jonathan Penton - Page 4

The Labors of Alexander
by Jonathan Penton

filmed by Rodger Kamenetz

Castle of the Eye, II
by Jonathan Penton

Minoru Niizuma
Japanese, 1930-98
Castle of the Eye, II, 1973
Marble
Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 98.143
Installation funded by the Harper & Mitchiner-Gittinger Family Foundations

The circles of hell stack.
They stack and they overlap
as intricately as their counterparts
on earth as it is in heaven.
All prisms remain combined
eternity looping back on itself
forever and ever, amen.
 
You do something different.
Stand straight and separate
your organs autonomous, untouching.
You reject the fundamentals of chemistry, of anatomy
refuse to join in the Universe’s glorious song.
The whole world is your enemy, though it does not know it.
Nature offends your beautiful black eyes.

Untitled Shapiro
by Jonathan Penton

filmed by Xander Bilyk