Picture
Caption: _______ PRESENCE
of ABSENCE a poem translated to paintings
Caption: A new tube of paint.
A poem by Rainer Rilke.
Joan Mitchell's paintings.
Remembrance of 9/11.
A harvest moon.
The end of a summer.
My children growing up.
Me aging.
All these thoughts folded into two weeks
in the studio.
September 2014.
Picture
Caption: Memory is not enough...
[Oil on paper exploration of form,
color and mark making]
Picture
Caption: I do not recollect. What I am is alive in me
because of you.
Picture
Caption: I do not reinvent you at sadly cooled off places you have left behind.
Picture
Caption: Even your absence is filled with your warmth and is more real than
your non-existing.
[oil on canvas,
small work]
Picture
Caption: Longing often meanders into vagueness.
[small oil on canvas]
Picture
Picture
Caption: Why should I throw myself away
when something in you may be
touching me, very lightly, like moonlight
on a window seat.
[oil on canvas]
Picture
Caption: Paintings 1-3, oil on paper 18x18 in.
Painting 4, oil on canvas 12x16 in.
Painting 5, oil on canvas 12x12 in.
Painting 6, oil on canvas 30x30 in.
Painting 7, oil on canvas 24x30 in.
Sharon Kingston
www.sharonkingston.blogspot.com
Memory is not enough, Rainer Rilke