a person is a bit of this and a bit of that
fuzzy tendencies overlapping, interacting
forged and scourged in the kiln of embodied life
eyes ions, black magnetic pools
zone in on tones
undertone, overtone, midtone
let the parts fall where they may
body takes a beating just doing the day by day
why are things so
what do things mean
how do things work
a serpent grows limbs
a head aloft partakes of the clouds of heaven
as well as the dirt of the ground
a stack of bones
opal tones
expand, contract
concentrate, dissipate
hands ground down while forces face forward
the bones are the slowest river
the flesh, the nerves, the blood grow to flow, each in its way
life is a convulsion of matter
eyes tomorrow
seated present
sentry and slave
guard the grave
the body of light harbors a shade
the body of shadow contains a glow
Luna Triune: wax and full and wane and new
the new of course unseen
every cycle has its way, its period, its mystery
each single season’s unique, any noise has its timbre
all is oscillation, orbs in orbit
go down long, draw in and in, only finally open out
bow, bend, lay low
tack and parry, stealthy slow
like grass grows
space is light
matter is force
time is mind
feeling with eyes, rove over ridges and marshes and creeks
body is topography and self is weather
sometimes stormy, often calm
I am made of moss and ferns
mushrooms and minnows and dim glow worms
man is land
containing imagination
soil to till
seed to spill
bereft chest
abject head
trunk bent
tower leant
a man knows a man, nothing said
All the images in this post are watercolor on paper, sometimes with a little white gouache. I painted all these within the last two months. Sizes:
Graces and Rorrim: 38″ x 50″ (96.5 x 127 cm).
Ray, Earrings, Elbows & Knees, Sleep Tight, Gray, Defiant, Retrospect, Fine Lines, Faun, Heartache, Brothers: 19″ x 24″ (48.3 x 61 cm).
A la plage, Brooder, Curvature, Halt, Defiant, Muscles of the Back, Outward & Inward, Degasian: 14″ x 17″ (35.6 x 43.2 cm).