Help me find the author/translator of this poem?
August 17, 2024 1:39 PM
I recently went to an art show in Greece featuring a few Lithuanian artists and was struck by a few lyrics painted on a wall that seem to allude to an Orphic journey to the underworld. Can anyone find the source, author, and possible translator?
The exhibition was at Bazeos Tower in Naxos and called Phosphorus & Hesperus – Dialogue. The artists were Diana Radavičiūtė and Saulius Valius who were resopnding to work by the late artist Klaus Pfeiffer. This is the text:
Creatures of the underworld,
Shine your torch in those dark recesses
Those hidden corners long forgotten
Where years wounds and hurts lie unseen
Look them in the eye, nurture them
And return healed and whole
I originally wondered if it was from classical poetry, but a classical scholar friend of mine said it sounds more modern or even by one of the authors. I wrote to the organization who put this one to see if they knew, and this didn't turn up anything in Google or Google Books. I thought I would try metafilter to see if anyone here recognized the passage or had better search techniques than I do!
The exhibition was at Bazeos Tower in Naxos and called Phosphorus & Hesperus – Dialogue. The artists were Diana Radavičiūtė and Saulius Valius who were resopnding to work by the late artist Klaus Pfeiffer. This is the text:
Creatures of the underworld,
Shine your torch in those dark recesses
Those hidden corners long forgotten
Where years wounds and hurts lie unseen
Look them in the eye, nurture them
And return healed and whole
I originally wondered if it was from classical poetry, but a classical scholar friend of mine said it sounds more modern or even by one of the authors. I wrote to the organization who put this one to see if they knew, and this didn't turn up anything in Google or Google Books. I thought I would try metafilter to see if anyone here recognized the passage or had better search techniques than I do!
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