a collection that continues to grow…the yellow flowers
(crocuses will bloom)
A collection of work inspired by Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to Some Yellow Flowers" exemplifies both the use of sand and stone additives with oil paint. This work is at the intersection of anticipatory grief and the place where loss becomes an everyday reality. The work emphasizes visceral, ephemeral lines formed by abstract shapes, repetition, graphite and color.
The poem
Ode to Some Yellow Flowers
Against the blue moving its own blue,
the sea, and against the sky,
some yellow flowers.
October arrives.
And though it may be
so important for the sea to unroll
its myth, its mission, its yeast-like inspiration,
there explodes
over the sand the gold
of a single yellow plant
and your eyes
are fixed
on the ground,
they flee from the great sea and its rhythms.
We are and will be dust.
Not air, not fire, nor water
but
earth,
only earth
we will be
and maybe also
some yellow flowers.
-Pablo Neruda
Oda a unas flores amarillas
Contra el azul moviendo sus azules,
el mar, y contra el cielo,
unas flores amarillas.
Octubre llega.
Y aunque sea
tan importante el mar desarrollando
su mito, su misión, su levadura,
estalla
sobre la arena el oro
de uno sola
planta amarilla
y se amarran
tus ojos
a la tierra,
hunyan del magno mar y sus latides.
Polvo somos, seremos.
Ni aire, ni fuego, ni agua
sino
tierra,
solo tierra
seremos
y tal vez
unas flores amarillas.
-Pablo Neruda
Translated by Thomas Dorsett
