Carle Hessay Modern Galileo with poem by Terence Young

C Hessay: “Modern Galileo”

This was one of six paintings by Carle Hessay accepted by the juried show, Canadian Art Inspired by the Universe, 2009 (compiled by Gary Sedun, National Research Council, Herzog Institute of Astrophysics; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYccYNzn1-k).

Terence Young's poem, “Observations,” inspired by this painting, was also included in the exhibition:

They rub their midnight hands

and in the cold

take turns to spy

on the moons of Jupiter

slaves to gravity

like everything else.

Like everything else

slaves to gravity

on the moons of Jupiter

take turns to spy

and in the cold

they rub their midnight hands.

(from For Kelly, With Love: Poems on the Abstracts of Carle Hessay Treeline Press, 2014)

(small painting on paper)