An Exhibition of Poems

“Travels and the Spirits at Play”

Artist Statement

The current series of poems in my estimation can be classified as images. They paint a picture of the thought process sometimes put into words before and after works done on canvas.

The series begins with the poem ‘travels’ which speaks about the search and a feeling of belonging. It encourages the idea of displacement and the memories that we hold within us when we move from one place to another. It suggests the means sometimes to transform new changes within our consciousness. At times this consciousness predates natural birth and as in the poem ‘incarnate’, one feels their existence is a repeat of past memories and events. The idea of ‘sleep’ is a renewing of new energies and striving to to evolve beyond the isolation of a displaced presence of mind.

With these new circumsances and experiences come new ideas, and as in the poem ‘longing’ there is a willingness to forget old ways of creativity, though as a part of memory, they are buried but never lost, to forge some new recognized or unrecognized search for identity through my work.