he wrote the brush
into his hand
within a paragraph
the palette
using easy phrases
he expressed
an easel
the white paper
a little discomfited
at his own pretentiousness
he included the description
of a splotchy smock
he saw himself wearing
a beret
no not that
but
a loose hat
to keep the sun at bay
in plein air
lyrically
lovingly
he wrote a landscape
foreground:
trees
background:
blue and purple hills
clouds across the sky
he paused
for a deep breath
like an Olympian diver
perched up
on the high board
then
momentum resumed
he wrote
in a fever
the colours
the hues
the brush strokes
the emergence
of a corner
of the center
of the borders
the way the random
transformed
into shape
depiction
and the picture
that he wrote himself painting
was beautiful
worthy
to be hung
in a public place
for viewing
at the last
he wrote himself
penning his name
the painters name
low down
in the left-side corner
and satisfied
he contemplated
how he might proceed
writing himself
a still life
a nude
perhaps a portrait
he wondered if
next time
he would do well
to write a broader palette
and a wider range
of colours
~
Poem #463 from a series of poems drawn from the imagination and collected as: a Bachelard reverie.
or less, more defined by impression than reality …
But I’m not an artist, my words are my tools of creation … and whether shaped by trowel or hair, they need to be felt, absorbed, breathed in as lived
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Absolutely, Cage. I can’t paint a lick.
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but we can dream it
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True. Cage. We can do that. And really well, at that.
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next time, as in this time, the painting will use you as a conduit to express itself. selah
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hee hee – now we’re getting mind boggling indeed. Very mandelbrot (?) I think.
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ha ha you went there and i followed 🙂 had to look up mandelbrot and see it has to do with math, but i also found a “viewer” that is interactive. by using that interactive viewer i was able to understand what you meant.
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The videos are stunning, aren’t they? A bit mind boggling, in a good way.
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Perfection❤️
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🙂 Think I might imagine my smock and the easel now, and dab a few thoughts …
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