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July 24th, 2010
This is one of my more recent paintings. Poet Francis Don Daniels was inspired by it and wrote following Ekphrasis. (An Ekphrasis or ecphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic description of a visual work of art).
A link to Donny's website can be found at the bottom of the page.
Artwork is available at http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/-amazing-ekphrasis-by-poet-francis-don-daniels-on-my-painting-sirens-lure.html
Pictures winged
in three dimensions
before my eyes,
dartling
one and then the next
a panorama of existence
soaked
with emotions
I could not explain.
~
A glimpse
first here
then there,
a familiar likeness
while others
too odd and strange.
~
Was this yet
another conjure
of the siren,
or the quandry
of modern man?
~
The pictures flashed on
as if to tell
the story
of the hourglass-
a cinematic journey
of whom and where
I'd been.
~
Places vague and unknown,
persons with foreign tongues;
Universes amongst the stars,
worlds cast somewhere beyond;
A man devoted to the Arts,
A man who's waging wars;
A man of indelible strength,
A man of pitiless flaws.
~
Before my eyes
plunged
impinging pain
of the lapses of life.
Before my eyes
poured
the meanness
I'd become.
~
And her face
the tears
gently trickling
in tiny beads
down her cheeks.
The sadness
in her crystal eyes
that now
pangs
my tortured heart.
~
No matter how hard
I tried, I
could not stop
the onslaught of pictures
revealing
in blatant color
my frailties, deceit
and lies.
Until
at last,
I reconciled
the upheavel
of my transgressions.
~
A dichotomy
as clear as
duty and omission,
as clear as
the artist
and the thief.
To realize my pain
and suffering
came not from her resentment,
but from my own demise.
~
That my wounded cries
were of my own affliction,
the hourglass
my empty sands.
~
Woman
of infinite beauty.
~~
Poem by Francis Don Daniels
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July 24th, 2010
This new painting was inspired by many trips to Florida's Everglades and other wetlands. It is available as cards, posters and prints at http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mistress-of-the-glade-susi-galloway.html
In Nature's pieces still I see
Some error that might mended be;
Something my wish could still remove,
Alter or add; but my fair love
Was fram'd by hands far more divine,
For she hath every beauteous line:
Yet I had been far happier,
Had Nature, that made me, made her.
Then likeness might (that love creates)
Have made her love what now she hates;
Yet I confess I cannot spare
From her just shape the smallest hair;
Nor need I beg from all the store
Of heaven for her one beauty more.
She hath too much divinity for me:
You gods, teach her some more humanity.
~ A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
July 19th, 2010
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln
3 of these images are hanging in downtown Clearwater as street banners in Celebration of Indepence Day. They will be available as prints, posters and cards soon.
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