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Destruction

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Mixed media (acrylic, wood shavings, metal scrap, fence wire), 2023

Size: w 16″x h 12″ x h 1.5″ cradled birch panel

Part I of Triptych (I, II, III: Destruction, Extinction, Disintegration)

Destruction

Rubble, ash, splintered wood, stone dust, pulverized concrete. What remains after the bombing of cities and catastrophe of earthquakes.


The following two poems will probably never see publication, so I put them out here (written in the last few weeks).


Gods of Peace and War

We are the gods of grace
We come from away and far
To show you a safe place
To light your way with stars

We are the gods of war
We travel now in space
To show you death and fear
We look into your face

We are the gods of peace

We are the gods that are

War Is Here

War is here; we’ve been attacked
Death will come for thee and me
As it has for saints and fools.

Before that, time will crease our hearts
And fear will corrugate our souls.

Her Lap of Roses

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Acrylic on paper (1994)

Size (not documented, work now in private collection)

This painting was included in my series Breast Cancer: A Progress, though it is not about breast cancer at all but is simply a celebration of women. As I wrote at the time, it was included in the series to remind us of what we are fighting for against this devastating disease.

I provided the following background information for the show at Art Noise Gallery, Kingston, 1994.

Sources/Acknowledgements:

Centre panel: Botticelli (Italian, 15th century), Primavera (detail: lap of Flora)

Side panels, figures: Goddess figures from ancient cultures

Side panels, backgrounds: Paul Klee (Swiss, 20th century), Jardin de Roses

Summer (Detail)

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Summer Detail

Acrylic over Oil on canvas (2015)

Work in progress

Size:  43″ x 29″

This work is part of a series I started many years ago, based on photographs taken my my husband, Steve.  Fall and Winter (oil on canvas) were completed in the early 1980s. Spring (acrylic on re-purposed marble) I did in 2013.  Summer languished unfinished for over 30 years, until I took another look recently.  Not finished quite yet.

Carbon Dating (Detail)

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Carbon Dating 2

Acrylic and conte on canvas (2015)

Size:  w 24″ x h 30″

A fossil of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx lithographia (the “Berlin specimen”) from the Solnhofen Limestone site in southern Germany was the inspiration for this painting, which took a turn or two of its own past that image.