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Monocle Man
Life by Paintings Measured
LIFE BY
PAINTINGS MEASURED
Life and it’s years
Measured by reflection
Recorded by another art work
Through choices of introspection
Forgotten or remembered dates
– written or not recorded dates –
signed pieces of spent time
scribbled on front or back –
Many escaped the cameras cache
Thus opening the door of surmise –
When – where – how – what – ?
Not sure and can’t remember
Marks of my own making
have gone out there
as fully-formed relatives of
heart and mind
Gone out there…
There – under the sun – elsewhere
under the skies and ceilings of
other homes
Lost they are –
No tag upon the ankle
– hanging on the wall
Gone from me their first love.
I’ve lost you – children of mine
Who could you possibly
mean more to – than I…?
Time ticked by
as I remember time ticking by
Whilst I studied you – changed you –
added to your import
As I filed you – sold you –
alas – oft with regret
Gave you – itemised you –
folded you – ironed you –
cut you – framed you – forgot you
or got you back.
Gave you to – unworthy foster parents
who put you somewhere –
closed off out of sight in
chest or attic
Years gone by –
measured in spatters – washes
– and dry-brushed patterns all amok
Time recorded in
frantic marks – that scurried across
one hundred and forty pounds cold-pressed
Some stood/stand the test of time –
others – disqualified by those in a
daze of incomprehension
“I don’t know much about art…”
was the rubber stamp at the
custom’s gate of their minds
Still – can’t complain –
‘cause some will not let you go
a pillar of time you represent in
associated thought:
“My husband loved that painting of yours
I still have it – wouldn’t part with it”
Time – years – paintings gone
Out of sight – owned by others
– never to return
Many of them have worn well
Others heard man’s benediction
spoken over them:
“Time for a change –
remove her from the wall…”
What possible worth
can be found in these –
the inanimate?
And yet – thought is
art engrafted-on-paper
and thought is Still Life
revealing – there is still life
Inanimate perhaps
but what stories they tell –
Vincent did well know
His paintings oft rejected –
before he had to go
No artist can measure his years
except by Retrospectives
He alone was at the secret birth
of images coming out
delivered to the picture plane
Years measured by paintings
All unique –
Dark and sombre or all aglow
Years measured by paintings
This will have to do
to document a life
On these – man places worth
If enough will say – it should be so
Years measured by paintings
A raft of scattered years
Recorded in line and colour
and form and tone by what appears
I wonder at them all
Categorised with equality
If rejected by the Salon
It doesn’t matter to me
Years measured by paintings
I have quite a few
still wanting to leave home
to make their way to you
Cricket – Exit
Reflection on a Selection
In search of a face
Aye aye Cap’n
Queen Cat
Boat on Fire
Fishin’ or Fashion
Abstracts Together
Abstracts together
(Left to right from the top):
Down through scaffolding
Figure 1
Abstract on the diagonal
Unresolved
Running Animals
Working Guitar
Words passing onto paper as abstracts developed:
Obliterating to find…pen line intuition…passing hooks…cerulean blue with essential direction line…with tension giving lines…without over spending…tie up…shapes vying for attention…multi-filled piece…spiral platform…enmeshed head…patterns in life and art…the work that cranes do…where does it all end…dynamic brought full out…a barrage of abstraction released upon the world…pale fire…an abstract a day keeps the doctor away…only jokin’…laybrynth…this looks better with music…abstract enjoined…don’t let this fool you…
Figure in landscape
