Composite. Starry Night: Deposit Photos; Moses: FPG/Getty Images Though having an experience of the artist that’s immersive
is now regarded de rigueur by lovers of Van Gogh,
in such experiences I do not wish to be submersive,
their highs just as elusive as the monster of the loch,
although the Talmud tells us that at Sinai, Jews, when urged
to accept the Ten Commandments, did so only when God threatened
to cover them with a mountain peak by which they’d be submerged
unless they would agree to be by all Commandments wettened,
all Ten Commandments constituting sources of the fountain
from which God poured the laws down from the smoky, fiery mountain.
Gershon Hepner
March 2021
Time Out Magazine tells us the ‘Immersive Van Gogh’ exhibition is coming to LA: ‘the popular exhibit turns ‘The Starry Night’ and other pieces into swirling, room-filling projections.’
Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored “Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel.” He can be reached at gershonhepner@gmail.com.
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