You Gotta Have Heart

Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, pluralism – found object, retablo painting, sculpture Arbitrary or subconscious, Saunders picked six. Man created on the sixth day from darkness; we came into the light, of knowing, of naming. Satan, sin held within, black of skin. Oh, Africa chopped up bleeding, the third world’s doors shown black, nailed shut. With the skin of drums, the heel of hand, he pounds the nails on the trail of the carpenter. Kept in place, biblical wives of Lot turned to salt, white-line the globe. White powder, white power, sugars the unpalpable, addicting, coca leafs and caffeine, doping the public, the poor for dimes. Reinforcing the lure of the bottle; the cola bottle that fell unbroken to earth from the sky in The God’s Must Be Crazy. Some have always used their addictions to create. Like a found objects, we too fall calling to Mother Mary. After: The Gift of Presence Raymond Saunders 1993 First Published by Ekphrastic Art:writing and art on art and writing *Lot the nephew of Abraham, husband of Edith who was turned to salt.