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| Wird dieser Winter jemals aufhören - Will this winter ever stop 28,5 x 49,5 cm Acryl on wooden board |
ROCK N‘
ROLL
They say
that a woman can be “won”
through displays
of expertise and passion.
Don’t try
to market yourself, they say;
sell a
life-style or an art form instead.
Better, try
to sell both as one, and one as you.
My choice
would be Rock n’ Roll. Only you
can’t explain
R&R. What kind of dialectic—
the kind
that sounds like Pete Townshend
smashing
his guitar against
Keith
Moon’s drum-kit—
what kind
of dialectic is that?
Badly
slurred speech wrapped in a
hangover; little
ash piles of brain cells left behind
the trashed
hotel rooms of a continent.
Confused,
wracked with passion, red-eyed,
unzipped,
crawling across a fire-proof carpet
in some nameless
motel on the edge of Omaha
trying to
make it to the rumor of
a
chlorinated water-hole somewhere between
these
plaster walls and the parking lot. And yet
to this day
the Fair Grounds of Iowa beckon to us. The glory
of back-to-back
dates in Peoria, in Duluth, the “Riot House” in full orgy.
What can
you say about concerts at which some fans wear ear plugs?
Hi Karin and Ken,
ReplyDeleteI look at and read your blog every week. First of all, Karin - I have seen an improvement in your pastels almost every week as you learn to master that medium. I am not a big fan of pastels, though. so when I saw your acrylic this morning, I saw a big difference in your ability to convey a mood. I think that paint is a better medium to utilize gesture than pastel is, and in this piece, the use of gesture in expressing yourself is more apparent than in your pastels. And it went a long way in getting the feeling across to the viewer. It think your status as an artist took a big leap in this image.
And Ken - I have been enjoying your poetry a lot. I particularly liked the poem about Morocco that you posted a few weeks ago. I am not going to offer any kind of technical comments about your poetry, since you know more about that end of things than I do. But suffice it to say that I enjoy almost every poem that I see here.
Kudos to both of you.
Alan
Hi Alan! Thank you so much for saying this - Ken and I really appreciate it. Not only your comment but also that you read the blog.
ReplyDeleteBy the way I kind of agree with you about gesture and pastel. I find it much easier to do abstracts with acrylics but I absolutely LOVE the medium of pastel. It is a different way of painting and I want to learn very much to make good expressive abstracts with it.
Ken says that his poems are in free verse and so technical issues per se are not really relevant. What is interesting is mood, atmosphere, and cadence. But as T.S.Eliot wrote, no verse is "free" for the man who wants to do a good job.
Karin
Enjoyed! Thank you! Ruthie
ReplyDeleteWe are glad you like it, Ruthie!
ReplyDeleteAnd now I can like it as a follower!
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