The Touch of Wind and Light
Description
Oil, Pastel, and Colored Pencil on Gessoed Paper
This new work seeks to communicate the experience of a body in contact/enmeshment/intimacy with the medium of light, especially as from beneath a canopy of trees. I wrote a poem to accompany the piece, which also speaks to this experience, and specifically to a sense of light moving through and becoming a part of one's own body or presence.
"The Touch of Wind and Light"
Light blooms and falls, hanging
in tongues around my ankles,
warm and fleshy
as the flews of a dog.
It gathers itself in eggs
along the trail, where the leaves above
—thousands of tiny scythes
have sliced it into fluttering arcs.
An avalanche, a steep slope of sun
inside my body
slumps into that tiny space
behind the heart, no bigger
than a fingertip. The coin-
sized dwelling shared by
love and sadness.
Whorls of glimmering fishes,
schooling spears of light
under the skin—and I
make all I need to nourish myself
with waves and radiation.Try it!