Christina Conrad 'Accessories of a Universal Globetrotter'
We are delighted to invite you to the opening of
CHRISTINA CONRAD
The Accessories of a Mystical Globetrotter
Saturday June 3, 5pm
3/06/17
- 8/07/17
Sydney-based Christina Conrad will read from her poetry at the opening at Tivoli Gallery, Oneroa, Waiheke. Pierre Peeters and Claire Ulenberg of the Pierre Peeters Gallery will launch the exhibition.
I am a timid child flung by an invisible force into the dark realm of my mother's long hallway.
I see myself on quavering legs, a mysterious power fills me, the white fire of my central eye penetrates the great looming shadows of life upon life, the masks - skeletons of those lives gyrate around me.
I become part of the ancient bodiless life. Each life the same play, different voices, different faces, stored in the bloody cage of the heart, the miser's vault - the mind.
I see myself in a schoolroom
sharing a double desk of ancient wood with metal legs. On
the lid of the desk, hundreds of names scarred in the wood.
On the double seat next to me a girl sits. On her head above
of her high polished forehead a blue bow trembles. She puts
her hand inside my side of the double desk. The hand takes
my fat chalks; the hand puts them in her side of the double
desk.
CONRAD in conversation with poet Gene Tanta. Chicago, Feb,
2011
Christina Conrad lives in Sydney. Widely exhibited in New Zealand, Australia and Europe, her poetry is published in the Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (ed. Ian Wedde) and the Oxford Book of New Zealand Poetry (ed. Vincent O'Sullivan)
She lived on Waiheke in the early 1970s.
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