Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Gasp! Water!! Water!! No wait...Coins, Gimme Coins!!
One gold (digger) fish money purse for Radhika, who lost hers to MTC pick-pocket: CHECK
Patent for cute purse design: COMING SOOOOON :P
His loopy smile was the hardest to stitch :)
The Fall
Above: " Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (1558) by Pieter Breugel the Elder.
Musee des Beaux Arts
Above: A sad attempt at paying homage to a truly great painting :)
Also my first oil pastel painting. I became obsessed with Breugel's canvas following gnothi seauton's lead, and Auden's poem inspired by the scene forms the perfect verbal accompaniment to the visual.
Did I mention I LOVE oil pastels? :) Such a beautiful, tactile medium. Feels like smearing paint directly onto the surface. More to come soon...hopefully :)
Musee des Beaux Arts
- W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
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