collage art interpretation

I do not know the title of this collage
it's by artist joseph cornell
it represents things hidden,
things hidden and tucked away
are impossible to hide

the sculpture of the little angel
gives light in this dark
yet colorful
context.
The room
is divided by a thick brown line,
which appears like a thin tree
trunk, though
it is a rendering of a tree
trunk, growing in a cell
with beautiful blue walls.
everything about this place should be dark,
dank--this appears to be a cell
this angel should be confined--
yet the cell is luminous.

moma catalogue 1980 cut up #5 (setting for a fairy tale)

even the most severely
Euclidean (Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system
attributed to the Greek mathematician
Euclid of Alexandria.)
box by Cornell
looks like an inhabited place
though its only resident
may be the shade
of a departed spirit.
They are not demystified things.
When dream does overflow into life, it may well demand the layering and linking that join
Cornell's emblems in extended, criscrossing
chains--a network of associations.
Setting for a Fairy Tale.

moma catalogue 1980 cut up #4

circe and her lovers
(mathematics in nature)
by joseph cornell

their mystery is of such a unique
quality that their emotional power possesses
the spectator without her wishing
to translate their secret
into less secret
language

moma catalogue 1980 cut up #3

the spiral
picked up
shifting sand allowed to form
different fleeting patterns
alluding to life spinning out
ever-narrowing route from the City
of Destruction to
the Celestial
City or Duchamp's
spiraling
or the circle
motif
a target
a moon
a glass disk
a ring confining a pet bird

moma catalogue 1980 cut up #2

The film finds no visual movement
the disjunctive "plot"
still images are merely quaint
"the gaze she knew as a child"
it is a cheaply made film
what the antipasto sun, the eternal bride
and a boxed doll see every day.
not very promising material
that hath no omen here -- but Awe--
an infinity of atmospheres

--The cinematic gaze of Joseph Cornell

moma catalogue 1980 cut up #1

sex = death
ritual is mechanical
yearning for wholeness
nothing places the picturesque
tinkering it requires
boxes are common in Dada and Surrealism.
seen as a fragmentation of fragmentariness
engravings demystify the art object
dream adapts the picturesque to a gothic eroticism
through a grotto
most of us feel uneasy with our culture's entrancing emblems of
wholeness.

--Joseph Cornell: Mechanic of the ineffable