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, April 10, 2022

I'm in Love (Through rose-colored Glasses)

 

Through rose-colored Glasses 68 x 42 - mixed media on canvas

 

 

I’M IN LOVE

 

with the portrait of a certain poet

composing a few wet verses

in her bath. Little kid’s in love

with the ball he’s kicking around, would

fight to the death for it. I know someone

in love with the youngish Iggy Pop, his hebre-

phenic squalor, his flexible graceful damaged  

body diving into an audience. But it’s Iggy’s need   

to be loved that he really loves. A certain poet   

loves Black Sabbath channeled through Wolf Alice

on Giant Peach, the live version, and I love

Italian cities in the first chill of morning, smelling

of espresso mixed with chocolate, brioche crumbling

through my fingers while I stand watching workers  

reading pink colored sports pages, nervous, twitching,  

longing for a smoke, and who look up whenever an elegant  

woman walks by, which is often, and I love that the men know  

instinctively when to raise their eyes. I love it that 

my wife stands on her toes whenever she’s ecstatic. 

 

 

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