AIGA Las Vegas: LUSH art + words, a gallery exhibit/event scheduled for First Friday in July at Art Square in downtown Las Vegas. The theme is type-based artwork combining words from a local poet, with art from a local designer.

 

I was given the words of Las Vegas-based writer Jesse Pino, in the form of his poem Cotton Candy Skies.

 

If I close my eyes, and picture you

I drift away to another place

Only in dreams

It's you and I, and these cotton candy skies

and you're holding me...here in your arms

 

Hold me here in your arms

 

I remember how we wandered through the rain

and the neon lights colored the sky

cold wind

black hair

green eyes

that stare

I could die in your arms.

 

...I could die in your arms