Gordon Payne, Birth of God, 1973 (BG5329 installation view). Photo: Michael R. Barrick.
Physical Description
- Medium
- 16 mm film
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- Object Description
- This video is inspired by Lionel Kearns' poem, "THE BIRTH OF GOD," 1965. Lionel Kearns included this entry about the poem in the publication, BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY McLUNE, 1969. A copy of this poem is located in the first display case to your right. Note: "THE BIRTH OF GOD" is a mathematical mandala embodying the perfect create/destructive principal of the mutual interpenetration and balanced interdependence of opposites: one and zero, something and nothing, substance and void, being and oblivion, positive and negative, good and bad, spirit and flesh, black and white, yin and yang, male and female, thesis and antithesis, this and that - and all the possible dynamic relationships of these polarities, the simultaneous representations of which are immediately obvious in the icons of sex, childbirth, and death. "THE BIRTH OF GOD" is the registered trademark of Lionel Kearns, copyright © 1965, 1967, 1969.
History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist, 2016
- Related Exhibitions
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