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, February 21, 2021

On Folly

 

Sizzle 100 x 70 cm - acrylic, ink, oil pastel on paper

 

 

 

 

FOLLY, IN PRAISE THEREOF

 

Everything is folly but folly itself

said Leopardi. Like the time

 

we were unembarrassedly   

hauled up the slopes of Everest

by grunting Sherpas. Being led

 

by a courtesan/tourist guide 

into the antique shadows of a Naples slum  

was a trip, took us way back in time, but what if

 

what if Byron hadn’t swum

the Hellespont, hadn’t been bitten by a malarial insect

in defense of Greek liberty? And what if

 

the commander of the 101st Airborne hadn’t admonished

the Germans surrounding Bastogne to more or less   

fuck off when they demanded that he give up?  

 

Sloppy Suzy loading up a borrowed pickup for one

more midnight move, process servers, neighbors, a lover’s last grasp

evaded, eluded, escaped, whatever

 

damn she’s pretty, isn’t she, eating red licorice for breakfast.   

 

 

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