Sunday, November 9, 2008

I want to draw what i see

I want to draw what I see
not what I think I see

One small part articulated so that now
your eyes can grasp the enormity of its smallness
and contain its beauty

I want to capture not what I feel
but what you will feel
Collective undertones of burnt sienna,
rising from our burnt earth, burnt past

I want to see
Color, Shape, Line

the path a sparrow takes across
the runway of the sky -
the soft, beaded swell of lake against
vast ochre

I want Form, Value, Movement
the way you Run, & Breathe,
the sharp clutching of our diaphragm
the heavy gray of our lungs.

I want to be What Is,
and draw what is now & forever -
not.
Meaning making
or making meaning?
What Is
the answer to art
Might any of it be Real?

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