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The visual & the poetic.

Tag: Cubism

A Kiss

What one might do with words.

What words might do with one.

When one echoes, ‘Bluebird in Disguise

canyon to canyon,

& traces of Cubism disguise the bluebird in a small painting

& one traverses the howling wasteland, to and fro,

criss-crossing a porous sieve – remembering how to protect

who & what one is becoming,

who & what one is becoming,

who & what one is becoming,

& simultaneously, a rivery motion

there – beside the blacktopped road,

in shades of tinted depth, beyond the gully,

the face of the forest whispering a kiss

in gut-feelings a kiss

in language a kiss

In danger a kiss.

A white-magic kiss.

A mother & child kiss.

A kiss at the wishing well.

A moonlight-upon-ferns kiss.

An elusive kiss.

A kiss clawing through sediment.

A kiss brushing your hair.

A kiss breathing your name.

A kiss chanting forbidden knowldege.

A kiss in animal shadows.

The kiss of ecstatic verse.

The kiss of the crystal star.

A kiss of realization.

A kiss following crucifixion.

In stone a kiss. In wood a kiss.

In sundrops the symbol of a kiss.

A kiss in premonition.

Bluebird in Disguise, 2023 – 9″ X 12″ – mixed media on paper

This is the Scene

This is the scene

where I follow the animal

into the forest.

This could be a bird.

A Cubist experiments

with wind

and Morse Code.

Cubism, Juan Gris & Ancient Iran

Collage and Concept Steven McCabe

Something connected these two works spatially and visually in my imagination. Maybe at first the subtle earth tones. I must have made three dozen digital collages for the GIF. Used many.

Pottery Vessel in the Form of a Ram, Unknown artist, Western Iran, 1350-800 B.C., Ceramic Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Juan Gris, 1912, Still Life With Flowers, oil on canvas, 112.1 X 70.2 cm Museum of Modern Art

You Send Me by Sam Cooke (& the Hamangian Cubists)

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Although cubistic, these artworks pre-date Cubism (and Sam Cooke) by roughly 7,000 years. Hamangia culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria) between the Danube and the Black Sea and Muntenia in the south.

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Cubist image: Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), late Spring, 1910

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You Send Me by Sam Cooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNco-e2CXuo

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