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I'm beginning a series of self-portraits. Also trying for a deeper metaphoric and symbolic meaning in my work. Some of this will be done through the use of poetry, sometimes the text of the poems will be included in the finished works.
This poem was written to accompany my most recent drawing, "Black Butterfly" completed July 20th, 2008. The text of the poem was incorporated into the drawing.
"Black Butterfly"
Bemusing muse
Black butterfly
Came through the ether
Mystical wings
Encircled me along the way
Enraptured on a summer day
Music painted on the sky
Black butterfly
Blown in from far off dust
Astral soul
Dressed in stardust
Black butterfly
Draw me perfect
Emergent from this coal black shell
Wet wings spread in joy to stand
Transformed
Flawless at the artist's hand
Evanescent passion lies
In our wavelengths intertwined
Black butterfly
Never caught
Light gently in the mind
Bring luminous thought
(c) Alice McMahon White 2008
This poem was written to accompany my most recent drawing, "Black Butterfly" completed July 20th, 2008. The text of the poem was incorporated into the drawing.
"Black Butterfly"
Bemusing muse
Black butterfly
Came through the ether
Mystical wings
Encircled me along the way
Enraptured on a summer day
Music painted on the sky
Black butterfly
Blown in from far off dust
Astral soul
Dressed in stardust
Black butterfly
Draw me perfect
Emergent from this coal black shell
Wet wings spread in joy to stand
Transformed
Flawless at the artist's hand
Evanescent passion lies
In our wavelengths intertwined
Black butterfly
Never caught
Light gently in the mind
Bring luminous thought
(c) Alice McMahon White 2008
Delving Deeper I
I'm beginning a series of self-portraits. Also trying for a deeper metaphoric and symbolic meaning in my work. Some of this will be done through the use of poetry, sometimes the text of the poems will be included in the finished works.
This is the first poem I've written in decades, written July 2008:
"Fairfield Avenue"
Walking long to the essential
Lonely
Fair field
Glinting cut-crystal-challis-brilliant summer afternoon
Recalling the morning
Soul meeting soul
Hungry for Your Love touch and gaze
Yet
Found deeper
Expression in shared thought
And so
Spirit
Overflows flesh
Once
More
Joyful
In the fair field
Half-century of b
White Album Statement
The White Album, my most recent work, is literally a labor of love, twenty years in the making. A quirky "photo-realism" album of my three teenagers, it is foremost a portrait of adolescence. My youngest son is just entering his turbulent teens; middle-child daughter a promising artist at 17-going-on-27; the eldest son, an adult of 20, started his college career at Kent State University, Ohio.
I was on the threshold of my own teen years when the Beatles were the soundtrack for the hippy era. This work draws parallels between then and now, and highlights the universal, eternal character of coming of age. I have attempted to explore the simila
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Lovely poem, beautiful drawing...you are an inspiration!