– For José María García Payán, El Sueño de Julia The wash machine is next to the fridge. It is in Spanish, but you will figure it out. The light over the stove doesn’t work but there’s a nearby bulb.
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Welcoming the house guest
Posted in Painting, Spain, Travel on February 14, 2022 | 2 Comments »
After de Kooning
Posted in Art, Women on April 17, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Penumbra, Issue 31, 2021, p. 94 The rich palette of peach and yellow and white conjures feminine reverie, light and feathery in places, paint thick and heavy in others, a pool of burnt orange coagulates at the bottom of the canvas. We can trace the brush as it stroked away form, left only movement and […]
Still Life Smith Cove
Posted in Aging, Heron, Mortality, Pacific Northwest, Painting, Women on November 2, 2020 | 3 Comments »
Like the crone observing new life from her crooked-neck perch bones and sinews exposed as winter’s denuded branches time relaxed immeasurable and infinite the blue heron rests on the leafless limb its s-curved neck raising and turning languidly.
Lo que dijeron los lirios / What the lilies said
Posted in Diego Rivera, Flowers, Indigenous peoples, Lilies, México, Painting, Women on May 20, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Lo que dijeron los lirios Rivera pintó a las mujeres que reunían los lirios de alcatraces en sus brazos que se cayeron de rodillas en un campo de flores, de vegetales, de maíz mujeres que hemos visto solamente por atrás sus espaldas y caderas amplias debajo de blusas blancas y faldas negras su pelo recogido […]
The Pieces
Posted in Community, Guanajuato, Mosaic, Time on March 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I search again through the just-opened mound a 1000-piece puzzle a promise of calm, time without limit