For Michael Newberry, Freedom to go Anywhere, Figure | Ground Gallery, June 1, 2023, Seattle, WA USA No need for an Oracle to predict the parent dethroned. A collective betrayal: to be outlived, outloved, no matter what we blame on the one who birthed the next generation, even if she bedded a god.
Archive for the ‘Painting’ Category
His Danaë
Posted in Aging, Art, Legends and Mythology, Painting, Women on July 7, 2023 | 1 Comment »
Mixed on the canvas
Posted in Painting, Transformation on February 23, 2023 | 1 Comment »
– After Hua Xi, Everything lies in all directions I dab dioxazine purple, one of the bluest shades of violet, on the blank canvas. If I left it undiluted, unchanged by human hand, it would pass for deep black, its own self, or a metaphor of color, potential, vibrance. I am one who adulterates, alters […]
Welcoming the house guest
Posted in Painting, Spain, Travel on February 14, 2022 | 2 Comments »
– 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.
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 […]