Climate Chaos by Bob Holman

April 3, 2022

A poem from Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper— a monograph on the work of Christy Rupp, with essays by Lucy Lippard, Nina Felshin, Amy Lipton, and Carlo McCormick, and poetry by Bob Holman, published in 2021 by Insight Editions. Christy Rupp’s installation Othered opens at Howl! Happening on Saturday, April 21, 2022.

Climate Chaos

Christy Rupp, Plankton Debris, mixed media, individual, 2019
Christy Rupp, Plankton Debris, 2019, mixed media, individual.

Crashing! Walrus
clambers over cliff
to shore where whales
wash up, stomachs full
of plastic detritus
The artist positions
Absence
on the wall a
a visual echo, bird
a bird call
silences all
And frogs all over the wall
made from recycled plastic
credit and gift cards
and a manatee
Climate Chaos
refolds homo sapiens’ (ha!)
brain.  Meanwhile
an insect buzzes
through
Climate Chaos
becomes death sentence
as bug instinct observes
single molecule bumping
up against
Climate Chaos
seeking evolution but can’t —
drowning in human sludge

Click Here to view Christy Rupp’s Othered at Howl Happening

November 2 - December 17, 2023
Howl! Happening (6 East 1st St)
Scooter La Forge: Tee Hee Hee Image
September 16–November 19, 2023
HA / HA ( 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor)
Linda Lundgren, painting 1999 and Sverre Lundgren, sculpture Balance
Saturday, October 14th / 6 PM
Howl! Happening (6 East 1st St.)
Flock of slits
Saturday, October 7 / 6–8 PM
Howl! Happening (6 East 1st St)
Directed by Flloyd: An Evening of Video and Film Work
September 9 - October 22nd, 2023
Howl! Happening (6 East 1st St.)
Fllyod, Sissy, oil on canvas
Friday, October 6 at 6 PM
Album Release & Film Screening
HA / HA ( 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor)
Allen Ginsberg: The Fall of America II Album
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