Category: brush and ink

#1436 The Edge (message from/for the Other/ side

4″x4″ Pen & Ink, watercolor
A poem, like any work of art, is a message without words.
The poem has words, but the message does not. One cannot ‘interpret’ a poem. Only, respond to it.

The truest response, like the poem, like any work of art, will be a message without words,
A response may take the form of another poem, a dance, music, a critical study. All with messages, opening endlessly like nested Russian dolls. All without words.

#1380 “Not All Rivers Run to the Sea”

11″x14″ Pen and Ink … and some thought about art.
If you know an artist’s life work, when the later works become stronger, more powerful (I don’t like to use comparative value-words, like ‘better’ – which have no meaning for what they DO), so too, do the earlier works, as they are invested with ‘becoming’ with what they will become.

I will say the same for poetry, for the real work of artist or poet, is not in making individual pieces, but for the artist—it is always a Life-Work… a process, a becoming. When I look at a work of art, I ask myself, “What is this become?” If I were teaching children, or young artists, that’s what I would ask, what I would want the student to see in their own work… what that piece they have made is becoming. There is no beginning or end for art

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