Human artistry adds to nature’s.
Artistry, For Whatsoever is Lovely, Week 24
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Painted Poetry
An ekphrastic poem is one that describes a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning. For this exhibition, however, an artist was given a poem and asked to create a painting that reflected the themes of the poem. (To my knowledge, there is no term for this reversal of the ekphrastic process.) My poem about forbidden love is given below and above is the painting it inspired. Painting by Leonardo de Dios Jerónimoque, poem by me.
The show was the ExpoColoquio Internacional PreTextos del Solsticio held in Tabasco, Mexico, on June 20. I was honored to be a part of it. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend, but a friend took the photo of the painting that was based on my poem. Below is its Spanish translation.
Three by Three for Thursday Trios
Let There Be Light! For CFFC
Okay, I couldn’t resist. My husband Bob Brown and I used to make lamps so they seem to be naturals to show for this prompt. To see more of our lamps, go HERE.
This is the only one that I still have. Bob did the wood and stone. I made the paper and formed the spiral shade.
Finally! My front door decorations almost restored!!! For Thursday Doors
The last major earthquake to be felt here on Lake Chapala (we were not at the epicenter) did in this arch over my door that leads onto the street from my front yard. It had to be taken down and the painting around it done by master painter Jesus Lopez Vega was lost as well. Here it is, rebuilt and restored. He’s now painting my address with embellishment on the wall to the left and needs to paint the light cover. I’ll show more photos later. Wanted to show this for Thursday Doors, however, as I haven’t posted on it for some time.
HERE is a link that shows the door and arch before and during restoration.
For Thursday Doors
Quetzalcoatl in process
This is today’s progress in this ongoing project. Body finished, scales going on, then the “rattles” and plumes to complete. I haven’t measured but I think it is about 15 meters long. Judy’s folly.
Click on photos to enlarge.
My Assemblage Pieces in the Hospitalito Exhibition (Show Ended Today)
Sea Snake
Dancing with the Stars
Sin Lite
Zipped
Beach Madonna 1
Beach Madonna 2
Beach Angel
Seascape
Technology Lurks
Fashionista
Beach Dog
Creche
La Manzanillo Mixed Media
In Balance
Words Found on the Beach
Gifts of the Sea
Sea Bird
Fish and Chips
Perched
Beach Bird 3
Viewers at the Opening
Viewers at the Opening
Exhibitors (I’ll show their work tomorrow.)
Click on photos to enlarge.
These are all assemblage pieces I did in La Manzanilla from objects found on my walks on the beach. They were exhibited in the Hospitalito as part of the San Juan Cosala festival honoring its patron saint, St. John the Baptist. The show will be taken down today, Sunday, June 25.
The Hospitalito Inaugural Art Show Tomorrow!
Beach Virgin
Please drop by to see the Inaugural Show for the Hospitalito, just a short distance south of the San Juan Cosala plaza. The show, curated by Isidro Xilonsonchitl, will feature the work of 15 local artists.
Since the San Juan Bautista Festival will be going on, the street that leads to it is blocked off by rides and booths, so it might be best to park on the Carretera just before or after the traffic lights and walk the one block down to the show, or to approach the area from the lake side instead of the streets immediately around the plaza. The show will run for two weeks, the duration of the festival, but the Inauguration will be June 16 at 5 o’clock. In addition to the show, there will be the usual food, rides and plenty of booths to tempt your pocketbook!!!
Above and below are a few of the 26 wall pieces I’ll have in the show, as well as a few of the beach creches.They are all assemblages made from material picked up on beach walks during the time I’ve spent on various Mexican beaches.
Sin Lite
Beach Scrub
Vida del Mar
Perched
Beach creches
Click on photos to enlarge.
Art Imitates Nature
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Pretty, but painful!
A reaching hand in the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadlupe in Mexico City
Art Imitates Nature
Suspended in this plastic world, my heart a gaping wound
if not for all the beauty in which it is cocooned.
How would we salvage anything from war and greed and lust
without art’s kind revision of all that is unjust
to make us reclaim hope in life simply because we must?
It’s the alchemy of nature to which we are beholden.
It takes our baser natures, transforming them to golden.
Prompts today are golden, salvage, wound, plastic, suspended, and revision.
“True” Art
The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet
Banksy
Mandy Barker
Banksy
Mandy Barker
“True” Art
Ugliness invades the exquisite hall:
brazen rude truths hung up on the wall.
Training the rich to see the real world—
the truth of the starving so crudely unfurled.
Exquisite lives overlooking the grime
of ghettos and junkyards, pollution and crime.
Riches amassed while refusing to see
how greed contributes to poverty.
Idiosyncrasies. Truth told in chrome.
Sad themes and base metals invade the rich home.
Landscapes with hardships depicted in oil:
rusted-out car frames returning to soil.
Thus crude art invades the beautiful world
with the ugly truth blatantly unfurled.
And though robber barons might greedily yearn for it,
and they might hang it, they sadly don’t learn from it.
Prompt words today are chrome, hardship, landscape, brazen, trainer and idiosyncrasies.
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