Randy MacNamara / Aloft RDU

Randy MacNamara

Aloft RDU
August - October

Artist Statement

“It is like being lost in a jungle,” Dr. Mirzakhani said, “and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks — and with some luck you might find a way out.”

MAKING
my mind moves in the cool muck
at the bottom of a dark and tan creek
slipping through
 
mud molds my thoughts into holes
they collapse as I withdraw
pulling up roots to wear as a wig
 
stripped I splash about
in colored light biting the edge
shadows bend my vision  
 
my instincts feel rugged resistance
a stone pried and plucked from suspension
plumes of sediment bloom downstream
 
I chase after a billowing liquid cloud
expanding in pools then riffles
rocks and gone