Crisscrossing Infinity Poem by Paul Hartal

In the city of Targu Jiu, Romania,
an abstract sculpture rises
30 meters high.
It is made of 15 zinc and cast iron
rhomboidal modules
(plus a half unit) .
These repetative,
double pyramidal shapes
form Constantin Brancusi's
'Endless Column',
a 1938 work honoring
the fallen Romanian soldiers of WWI.
The rhythmic rhomboid geometry,
metal vertebrae in the spine of time
indicate infinite expansion.

The Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti
was ispired by Brancusi's
Coloana Infinita.
Ligeti's Piano Etude #14
feature loud, ascending sounds
scaling chord sequences
that generate a sense
of upward flow, an ascending motion
that dissolves and vanishes
in the boundless space
of the cosmos.