Tag: art

• Comedian

  Bananas.

  

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  November 22, 2024

  absurdity, art, auctions, bananas, comedian, Maurizio Cattelan, New York, Poetry, satire, Sotheby’s, wealth

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• Regrets

  With apologies.

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  October 25, 2024

  art, exhibition, experimental poetry, judgment, poetics, Poetry, regret

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• Terroir (VII)

  Or: “Reasons for Being Here.” An ars poetica.

  

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  July 28, 2024

  America, ars poetica, art, belonging, home, longing, Poetry, reasons

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• At the Musée des Beaux-Arts

  Three poems. In Montréal.

  

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  July 3, 2024

  art, Flanders, forms, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Poetry, sphere

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• Brush Work

  More exercises in watercolor, plus a few paintings.

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  June 30, 2024

  art, brushwork, New York, New York School of the Arts, Painting, watercolor

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• Flat Wash

  Exercises in watercolor

  

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  June 10, 2024

  art, blue jay, color, New York, Painting, technique, wash, watercolor

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• Re-entry

  

  I.
  One last meal at the family table, before
  we part ways. Noodles bathing in a boiling pot,
  I unwind lines of wisdom my grandfather leaves

  me. "You are more talented, have always been more
  talented than you would tell yourself. I saw this
  when you were young, when beneath the lush mango groves

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  May 20, 2024

  art, creativity, departure, family, homecoming, inspiration, Painting, Poetry, writing

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• Seated Men

  At the Museu Picasso

  

  One watches the world for the first time.
  Another unfolds what
                  the first sees,

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  May 19, 2024

  abstract expressionism, art, Cubism, displacement, form, Painting, Picasso, Poetry

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• Still Life

  For my grandparents

  

  Cold tangerine
  on
  a glass table.
  
  the first principle
  of composition
  (i hear them say)
  is knowing what is there

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  May 16, 2024

  art, drawing, Poetry, still life

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• At the Sorolla

  

  It is one thing
       to study his work
  closely, trying
       to hear the music
  
  of his Muse
       who animated
  the artist’s use
       of color shaded
  
  and thickly spread
       in joyful strokes
  where one can read
       his living speech.
       

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  May 15, 2024

  art, family, inspiration, Joaquín Sorolla, Muse, Painting, Poetry, writing

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