Distillation

TATE BRITAIN - The Weston Gallery 1950

Distillation

(1957)

Gilliam Ayres

Of Earth

Of Universe

A kinetic

dilated in time

imperceptible motion

Energy is present

primal and potent

I can feel its edges

capture its explosion

As elements collide

inconsolable natures

crash dissonant

shatter and disintegrate

Structure is rupture

and violence of creation

From naked eye

to astral perception