Guarantee Of Sanity Poem by gershon hepner

Art, a guarantee of sanity.
Under arches of hysteria
we search for our humanity
to which we tend to be inferior.

This poem was inspired by two works by Louise Bourgeois exhibited at MOCA in LA in contiguous galleries. The first is a painting on which she has painted the words: “Art, a guaranty (sic) of sanity.” The second is a gorgeously sensuous bronze polished sculpture created in 1993, looking like a Brancusi that was sculpted under the influence of LSD called “Arches of Hysteria”.

1/23/09