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In practice, life and painting, I am interested in finding a balance between realism and abstraction. For myself, painting maintains an independent language that communicates more adequately than words. I wish to better understand how colour choice, brushstroke and expressive decisions connect with the conscious observer. Recent work represents the search for stability during times of uncertainty. The city's infrastructure has served as a poetic metaphor for this endeavour. View more posts
Lindsay Kirker
Very impressive Lindsay. Do you have the names of the poems that inspired your pieces? You can feel the obvious passion in them. DF
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Thank you! Some were inspired by whole poems and others certain lines.
The cover painting was inspired by the poem ‘Mayakovsky’ and the lines,
‘Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern’
The first painting, ‘Anxiety’
‘To the Harbormaster’, the second and fourth
‘Morning’, the third down but more so the line ‘I need you and I look outside at the noiseless snow’
and the fifth one down, by the first lines of ‘Having a Coke with you’
‘Having a Coke with You’
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz,
Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier
St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for
yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and
statuary
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything
as still…
-Frank O’Hara
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Thank You Lindsay, looking at the poems now. Cheers
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