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![]() Like black lapels above her? Why can’t she recover Will she tell her children at the brink of night, looming Will she ride alone forever? What stories Is breaking like an egg yolk at the edge of the sky? ![]() Will she reach itīefore sunset, she wonders, now that the golden orb Out of nowhere, a diminutive house appearsīeneath a swooping bough. The grizzled river, where bell-shaped peaksĪs she rides the world slips and slides, changingĮvery second. Up and down she gallops across the seasick road, by Dinah Berland, after Fughetta on Paper by Joost de JongeĪ woman rides horseback across pink foothills, Joost de Jonge Vianen, the 30th of April 2015, The Netherlands May you enjoy reading this book as much as you enjoy viewing my paintings. I wish to thank everybody who contributed, in their own specific manner, to the richness of my feeling and art, to the completeness of this book, which may very well be the beginning of a new awareness of the intricate relations of the different arts and their values reinforced by the individuality of their voices and the mystique of their universality. Robert’s striking critique elevates perception and I'm grateful to be able to share it with my readers. Joy Harjo’s poem reconnected me with my childhood experience. Peter Frank & Emily Bilman deserve special mention for their guidance and editing. Emily Bilman’s text is central to the project and is available in four different languages. John Fuller really took it to heart and repositioned the "I" within the body of truth, feeling, life & poetry.ĭr. Robert Wynne’s poem gave me the idea that, indeed, life and art show a form of symbiosis in inexplicable parallels of feeling and visual expression perhaps, the Romantic Sublime in its full significance. The poetic brilliance of Norman Dubie opened up my consciousness to new colors. How this truly happens is an inexplicable dark thing. Basically, I was driven by my conscious desire to expand my poetic and spiritual awareness and to connect and share my work and feelings with powerful creative people. The spark of inspiration seems to ignite a force beyond my control as if I'm driven forward. Morgan was ready to underscore my project with a text and a recommendation! More voices joined in: Emily Bilman & Andrin Schütz from Switzerland, Eva Bosch from Catalonia, Dinah Berland from LA, Domenico de Chirico from Milan, Saul Ostrow from New York City, the enigmatic Joy Harjo from Tulsa, Oklahoma and, closer to home, my two good friends Robbie Dell'Aira & Juliën Holtrigter and new acquaintances Diederik Oostdijk & Onno Kosters.Īs always a spark drives me on. ![]() I was very fortunate to have Peter Clothier, Peter Frank, Norman Dubie, Robert Wynne & John Fuller joining in first hand. So I took this urge literally and asked some of the poets and writers of the English-speaking world, whom I tremendously admire, to join my project and to write one poem or text in exchange of one of my smaller paintings. Really felt that my art practice, in general, needed art for art’s sake.
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