Artist
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet.
Patti Smith is a singer, writer, performer and visual artist. She reached worldwide fame in the Seventies for her revolutionary way of merging rock and poetry. She released twelve records, including Horses, rated by “Rolling Stone” as one of the 100 best albums of all times. She debuted with her first drawing exhibition at Gotham Book Mart in 1973. In 2007 her name was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her last book, The Year of the Monkey, has just been published and it’s already a best seller in the USA.
If we be blind, if we turn away from Nature, garden of the soul, She will turn on us.
Supplication to Nature
If we be blind, if we turn away from Nature, garden of the soul, She will turn on us.
In place of songbird, the shrill cry of the locusts devouring the harvest, the terrible crackling of the blazing rainforest, the Peatlands smoldering, the seas rising, Cathedrals flooding, the Arctic shelf melting, the Siberian wood burning, the Barrier Reef bleached as the bones of forgotten saints. If we be blind, failing in our supplication to Nature, species will die, the bee and the butterfly driven to extinction. All of Nature nothing more than an empty husk, the unholy ghost of an abandoned hive.
All of Nature nothing more than an empty husk.
Patti Smith explains his piece of art for The New Humanity project.
