THE HOUSE OF THE FULL MOON

Most of the time relegated to a second position, in relation with its counterpart, the Sun, the Moon kept nevertheless a significant position in the “mental landscape” of the human kind.

It was often a WOMAN.

The Moon was most of the time a Queen.

While the Sun was the King.

But how beautiful, mysterious and ever affecting us, and life in general, this distant Queen…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Queen of the Night.

The Night of the Poet.

Here it is a beautiful poem by Lucian Blaga, a Romanian poet obviously under the spell of the Moon, in his famous poem:

I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders

I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders

My mind does not kill

the mysteries I meet

on my way

in flowers, eyes, on lips or in tombs.

The light of others

strangles the spell of the hidden, unpenetrated

in depths of darkness,

but I,

I with my light increase the secret of the world –

as the moon with her white rays

does not diminish, but shimmering

intensifies night’s mystery,

I do myself enrich the dark horizon

with shivers, great shivers of sainted secret,

and what’s not comprehended

becomes even more incomprehensible

under my own watching –

because I love

flowers and eyes, and lips and tombs.

We invite you, today, the day of the Harvest Moon and the Autumn Equinox to design THE HOUSE OF THE FULL MOON.

Most architects only considered the movement of the sun, in their architectural investigations. Even Le Corbusier, in his famous definition of what architecture is, or should be, mentions a light that is obviously solar.

But the Moon, though somewhat neglected, is still there, still watching us, even if, voracious in our unending quests, apparently we did place a human foot on its surface.

Was it sacrilegious…???????????????

Maybe for the poet, yes.

But we feel the Moon didn’t exhaust its mysteries because of our “conquest.”

Indeed, could a real Queen ever be conquered…?!?

So please express your feelings, your thoughts, your “darkest” or most luminous intuitions about the Moon through a great

HOUSE OF THE FULL MOON.

Please send us ANY work, ANY size and ANY format to icarchgallery@yahoo.com. We will publish all the workes received on our website., www.icarch.net. There is an entry fee of 30E (15E for students) payable by PayPal through the registration section of our website. The registration deadline is December 21st, 2010. The deadline for submitting yoru work is March 21st, 2011, the date of the Spring Equinox. If you have any questions please contact us.

Thank you,

ICARCH Gallery