A woman is removing or replacing, the shoe of foot while she sits on the edge of a great pool of water. On the water is a swan, and Lilly pads. A flock of birds fly off. A prominent hedge crosses horizontally. The painting is 36"x 48". Oil on canvas
Artist Reply: Thank you, Maria! I wrote a prose poem to go with it...
Xanadu0
Far off, farther than the business of humanity.
Unmeasurable, incommensurable. Right angles further
than where or when.
Quiet. Energetic contrails fall away in a construct
Entropically impossible, intrusive, and now invisible. The
Anti-geometry of where or when.
Who will conduct the post-mortem? Who will pay the fee?
Who will greet the guests? Who will guard the bodies
and prevent the decay of where or when?
What will be done while the rioting snares the living who crawl on
The edge of the crowd to their safe retreat? Gone from memory
In the ashes of where and when.
A seed shatters hard concrete and multiplies in the yellow haze
Of dandelions unfettered flight. A cleansing rain. Then sunshine.
From the ashes of where and when.
srs 2020
2 Comments
alan webb 13 Jun 2020
Beautifully captured with great detail....so inspiring to view.Maria Anna Machado 24 May 2020
VERY BEAUTIFUL...