2016 Blue Figure Drawings with Blue Figure Paintings part 2

some versions of Pastoral #2, 48 x 48", o/c, 2012

some versions of Pastoral #4, 48 x 48", o/c, 2012

Woman in the Reeds, 1 through 4, each 22 x 22”, Flashe on Arches, 2016

This was a group of paintings that survived.

The ideas in these paintings became the above drawings.

4th Western Lagoon, Blue Figure, each 22 x 22”, Flashe on Arches, 2016

Blue Figure , Western Lagoon, 68 x 68”, o/c, 2016-17

So this piece of writing if I take it a part, a bit-- may yield something else.

My work is metaphorical-- of a thought. 

The figure, the thought, the idea-- 

or Ideal, is emerging 

from the reeds or mind.

The bleak winter into a spring,

is the process of each new idea. 

We reach for the summer 

of each thought or aspiration-- 

then necessarily 

fall back into another round.

I like to see this metaphor 

as the Earth itself 

going through its daily round.

There is a beauty in this thought, 

and a search for truth, 

and finally justice.

I go through my mind 

searching 

in some way each day, 

the idea differs and shows 

some new aspect of itself. 

I see it as poetry.

I see poetry 

as a search 

for some kind of truth.