In this blog we will share with you our vision of beauty, balance, harmony.

As Mark Leach writes in his book Raw Colour with Pastels: “Sound is all around us, and it is musicians who refine that sound into something of beauty. As a painter, I have always felt that my purpose is to craft colour in a similar way, to see through the confusion and seek harmony and beauty.”

And we add: Words, fragments of sentences, spoken noise is all around us, and Ken arranges words in such a way as to capture beauty in the accidental, the ambient soundtrack of life.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Motivational Speaker


 
In Spring I wear Pink 20 x 50 x 2 cm acrylic/charcoal on canvas



MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

A chain gang of ducks digging their way
through darkening blue. Little thumb prints
of red on the horizon. Cold Baltic Sea beneath them.
Are ducks too busy fleeing buckshot
to take five? They seem to be constantly    
swerving away from rest in peace.
Or are they fleeing nothing but the urge to do nothing?
No slackers in this squadron.
Suppose they’re on a flight as useless as
frescoes in a dilapidated palace in Palermo  
or this poem for that matter…or any art
but literally over-the-top
of the world we’re looking at, walking through,
pushing some kind of feathered agenda
up there on their own just for the hell of it.
Like teenage boys on Friday nights way back when
driving up and down Mt. Diablo Blvd.,
listening to Hotel California and Dust In The Wind
eying Mustangs and Camaros with nowhere to go.



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