Category: landscape

Caution

    Caution, 2013. Ink and tape on photo. A Caution To Everybody Consider the auk; Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. Consider man, who may well become extinct Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked. Ogden Nash

Restless Streams

  Restless Streams, © 2013. Oil, ink, varnish on panel. ARCTURUS IN AUTUMN When, in the gold October dusk, I saw you near to setting, Arcturus, bringer of spring, Lord of the summer nights, leaving us now in autumn, Having no pity on our withering; Oh, then I knew at last that my own autumn… Continue reading Restless Streams

Darkness Calls

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveller hastens toward the town,       And the tide rises, the tide falls. Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves,… Continue reading Darkness Calls

Soldiers

Soldiers, ©2013. Gouache. THE THREE CYPRESS TREES Transparent and frail, like the slumber of woodcutters, serene, foreshadowing things to come, the morning drizzle does not conceal these three cypresses on the slope. Their details belie their sameness, their radiance confirms it. I said: I wouldn’t dare to keep looking at them, there is a beauty… Continue reading Soldiers