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The visual & the poetic.

Category: Figurative Abstraction

I was ‘barely old.’

In 2015, when I did this drawing, I was ‘barely old.

Leonard Cohen already said the more poetic ‘almost young.’

LIttle did I know; ten years later I would have the energy to complete

my most ambitious project:

Part One (of the diptych) discussed here.

Part Two (of the diptych) discussed here.

I hope to complete my 5′ X 70′ diptych in December, January, February?

Getting close to completion but I think I’ll go offline for a while.

I am moving slowly.

After completing the visual art I will develop a fuller rationale for the work.

I will write about inspiration, process, and purpose.

And decide on a final name for the diptych.

Then look at the poetic scraps I jotted down, as they sounded to me, during the

drawing & painting.

The authorities & Mythical Zeus (a prose poem)

The authorities said we have your fingerprints.

Mythical Zeus said I am certain this is impossible.

The authorities said beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Mythical Zeus said I have no memory of being here.

The authorities said you have been here thousands of times.

Mythical Zeus, in flux like a wavery obsidian shadow, said I am certain this is impossible.

The authorities said we constantly retrieve your fingerprints, alongside other evidence.

Mythical Zeus said perhaps I know this location by another name.

The authorities said possibly you have forgotten, an easy mistake to make.

Mythical Zeus said why do you – how strange – you would speak to me of memory.

The authorities said possibly you have have been deceived.

Mythical Zeus said why do you – how strange – I am not aware of mistakes or deception.

The authorities said we can be of great assistance with this – with you – with clearing your name…

Mythical Zeus said I am on a search-party mission to rename & reactivate thought-forms previously declared abandoned & lost. And I am not lost.

The authorities, concurring, said we wish to save you from your illness.

Mythical Zeus said I am not aware of any illness.

The authorities, concurring, said please sign the form giving consent.

Mythical Zeus said what will be done based on my signature if I sign.

The authorities said whatever we deem consequently necessary to deactivate the current situation.

Mythical Zeus took a deep breath, diving like Johnny Weissmuller into the multidimensional ocean, on his search-party mission to realign & reassign thought-forms previously declared abandoned & lost. Alone, he did not feel abandoned.

The last line of the poem places the images in context. A figure in motion as if underwater in a multidimensional ocean. A figure suspended like an angel above a medieval landscape, swimming through the air.