Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Category: visual art

AFTER IMAGE

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 9:55am

Today I have seen

the contemporary slash

of Silver on

My Horizon

& still,

when I blink

in the bathroom

before the washer & dryer

I see the customary

strip of Lime Green

AVA’S BIRTHDAY

My Journal for statements

Tonight in My Bath

of necessity

I took out the purple

galaxies folding down around Me

& laid them on the edge

of The Universe

for safe-keeping

ENTRANCED

The Hawk Beach 11:03am

EYE sat in that

Silver Sun

with The Beach spread

to My Back —

I’d turned an ankle

when looking up

to a flock of birds

gutting the wires

& taking off —

EYE followed Their Cloud

undulating

among the rocks

like a school

of Silver Fish

& when They passed

overhead

I straightened up

to watch

THE KISS OF LIFE

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 6:55pm

EYE have decided to leave

My Fuchsia Lip Print

on The Rim of My Sacred Life Glass –

It rests

like a purple leaf above

the scripted “Life”

set in Black

& EYE drink from It

layer upon layer

3-D BLOOD BLOTCH

The Hawk Living Room 5:10pm

EYE am wearing

My REAL Black Jesus Underpants

& EYE am writing with

a still-good Birks pen cartridge:

EYE have seen

the 3-Dimensionality

of M(EYE) obliterated abortion

heart

in the middle of M(EYE) Black Star

& EYE Still See It!!

COMMEMORATIVE ART

My 1992 art project titled Satellite Art For Extraterrestrials is originally described in the following raw footage video of 22 minutes.  The project is hereby designated to commemorate the lives of fourteen young women who were gunned down on this date, December 6th, 1989, at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec — because they were women. With their families’ permission, I now plan to have commemorative markers to be designed and placed at fourteen specific geographic sites in Quebec and Labrador, Canada.  Each marker will be placed in memory of what each woman was striving to achieve twenty-six years ago, and in honour of the strides all women continue to make for themselves and all of humanity:

Genevieve Bergeron 21

Nathalie Croteau 23

Anne-Marie Edward 21

Maryse Laganiere 25

Anne-Marie Lemay 27

Michele Richard 21

Annie Turcotte 21

Helene Colgan 23

Barbara Daigneault 22

Maud Havernick 29

Maryse Leclair 23

Sonia Pelletier 23

Annie St-Arneault 23

Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz 31