Speaking in Tongues

Christy Langer

Urs Fischer

Audrey Kawasaki

Fuco Ueda

Hayv Kahraman

Riikka Sormunen

Kat Gun

Anton Kannemeyer & Conrad Botes

Alvaro Tapia

AJ Fosik

Cabizbaja

Petrina Hicks

E.V. Day

Martin Colairo

Bjork

Piero Fornasetti

Yuka Yamaguchi

Heiko Muller

Tongues are rather strange. Like a hidden tentacle, they are the only organ that can pop out of the body from the inside. There are a plethora of associations tied to tongues; the gentle lick of a lioness and her cub, a tongue of fire that can be ablaze with hurtful words. Hidden in their symbolism is the power to nurture or destroy us. The child-like act of sticking out one's tongue is a subtle act of rebellion or resistance to conform. Embedded in their imagery is perhaps an archetypal link to creation. It was the Egyptian Creator, Ptah, who manifested the world he had incubated in his heart only when he spoke it out loud with his tongue. 

 Haiku by Bruce Edmonds

Even the dark mouth 

of a falling wave, speaks with

a tongue of moonlight

Concealed

Chad Wys

Sam Weber

Gillian Lambert

 Georgina Gratrix

Rene Magritte

Artist Unknown ?

Ray Ceasar

Dawn Black

James Jean

Sarah Esteje

Kevin Francis Gray

 Robin F Williams

Chiara Attorre

CONCEALED

Earth to Air

 Schiavonetti, Soul Leaving the Body, 1808

Frida Kahlo, The Dream, 1940

Jon Macnair

Loui Jover

Miss Van

Adam Letch, Leaving the Body, 2002

William Blake

Inside Out

Catrin Welz-Stein

Elena Kalis

Diane Victor

David Ho

Frida Kahlo

 Ken Wong

Leilani Bustamante

Kate Macdowell

Inside Out

By Diane Wakoski

I walk the purple carpet into your eye

carrying the silver butter server

but a truck rumbles by,

                      leaving its black tire prints on my foot

and old images          the sound of banging screen doors on hot   

             afternoons and a fly buzzing over the Kool-Aid spilled on   

             the sink

flicker, as reflections on the metal surface.

Come in, you said,

inside your paintings, inside the blood factory, inside the   

old songs that line your hands, inside

eyes that change like a snowflake every second,

inside spinach leaves holding that one piece of gravel,

inside the whiskers of a cat,

inside your old hat, and most of all inside your mouth where you   

grind the pigments with your teeth, painting

with a broken bottle on the floor, and painting

with an ostrich feather on the moon that rolls out of my mouth.

You cannot let me walk inside you too long inside   

the veins where my small feet touch

bottom.

You must reach inside and pull me

like a silver bullet

from your arm.

The Third Eye

Frida Kahlo, Diego and I, 1949

Rima Dartmoor

Lauren Albert

Sulamith Wulfing, Third Eye

Charmaine Olivia

Mark Ryden

Cynthia Torroll, The Third Eye

Tara McPherson

Marcroy

Lauren Albert

Third Eye Haiku

invisible wings
endless universe to see
open third eye

Sharmishtha Basu