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The visual & the poetic.

Category: ink drawing

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.

Two Symmetrical Suns Illumine the Animal Mask

In memory of twin suns.

In memory of bone & wood.

In memory of transformation.

In memory of antlers.

In magic.

In ecstatic chaos completely forgotten

two symmetrical suns illumine the animal mask.

In memory of stone.

In memory of starlight.

In shape-shifting completely forgotten

two symmetrical suns illumine the animal mask.

Intermediaries of the Otherworld

mediate touch in your fingertips

& mediate muscle

rising the mounts of your palm,

& mediate the joints flexible in your thumbs.