Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck – For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck – For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop – Here is a strange and bitter crop
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Quote: John Berger
“Hope is not a form of guarantee; its a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest is circumstances that are very dark.”
Quote: Mark Rothko & Adolph Gottlieb
“To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those wiling to take a risk.”
Quote: Franz Kafka
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to be logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your own most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
Song Lyric: Feist
I don’t know what I knew before.
(from ‘I Feel it All’)
New works – considering the liminal state
Quote: Lemm Sissay
“If I’m not defined by my success, I am defined by my ability to heal. Because we’re all hurt, and we’re all healing.”
PORTRAIT OF A RIGHT EYE – 2
This eye is virtually blind. I was involved in an accident during the summer of 2016 when my torso was crushed when a speed boat hit the one I was sitting on. The accident broke both my collar bones, five ribs on the right side and punctured my right lung, causing hemopneumothorax. Another effect of the crush and broken bones was Purtscher’s Retinopathy which damages the retina permanently. The centre vision of this eye doesn’t exist, it is a great grey hole, no information passes through it, not even strong light. I can’t see your face/head with this eye. I have peripheral vision, so I would know which room I was in, or who I was with (if I knew you). I think this eye looks permanently frightened – as if it is grasping for all it can see. (see blog: PORTRAIT OF A RIGHT EYE 1. My left eye was also damaged but the central vision is not affected, so I see most things with that small window. The world I see is darker, dimmer, and the colours are a bit odd. Details are difficult to grasp. It’s all about information to my brain.
Quote: Peter Schjeldahl
“Painting is a medium of concerted imagination, symbolizing consciousness.”
Quote: John Berger
“Painting is the art which reminds us that time and the visible come into being together, as a pair. The place of their coming into being is the human mind, which can coordinate events into time sequence and appearances into a world seen.
With this coing into being of time and the visible, a dialogue between presence and absence begins. We all live this dialogue.”
JANE FRANCIS 