Poetry Challenge: Optical Order
Exhibitions & Events
In addition to being an artist, Markus Lüpertz was a poet. Throughout the exhibition, share your Lüpertz-inspired poems with us to win prizes. Every other week, we’ll issue a new poetry challenge based on images or themes in the exhibition for fresh inspiration and chances to win.
Installation view of Markus Lüpertz at The Phillips Collection. Photo: Lee Stalsworth
THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Rather than chronologically, the Markus Lüpertz exhibition is organized in an optical order (more on this in a previous blog post). Write a short poem describing your response to the way Lüpertz’s works are displayed and arranged in this installation.
THIS WEEK’S PRIZE: An Individual membership to The Phillips Collection.
TO ENTER: Leave your poem in the comments here, or share on social media with #LupertzPoem. We’ll select winners on Friday, September 1.
**UPDATE: The winning poem was submitted by Rebecca B:
Walking into a room
A city
A town
A crowd
We do not simply
Walk Into the present moment
With painted past
And indistinct future
We enter a space
Filled with
Light
Color
Voices
Feelings.
Because we enter
Through a doorway
Does not mean
We should expect
A way
We have already felt
We have already faced.
