ELEMENTS OF WINTER 10

mixed media painting on canvas (acrylic paint and mediums, metal tape, mica dust, re-used materials -mirrored glass and aluminium foil) 2018

w 76 x h 76 x d 4cm; framed white wood w 80 x h 80 x d 5cm; orientation square

POEM
Winter: challenging, evocative, mystical / Commanding the elements of water, wind and earth / Temperatures plummet and fluctuate, materials expand and contract / Landscapes and seascapes blown and pushed and pulled and blanketed and folded and swept and exposed / Shaped to ever changing vistas / Winter benign comforter, sinister alchemist, torturer and pleasurer

Lines of flight, from one point to another, looking down across the valleys or high into the sky /Atmosphere charged with joyful, exuberance, snow falling playfully, blanketing the ground / Brumous portents, stinging spindrift whose crystal needles tattoo my face and sweep away my foothold on reality  / I am particulate, I am ice shards, I am snowflakes, I am the white out, distorting, obliterating, cleansing, revealing, shrouding and concealing / Sun emerges Illuminating, warming, regenerating / Winter benign comforter, sinister alchemist, torturer and pleasurer 
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ELEMENTS OF WINTER series: elemental forces experienced during wintertime. Water is often mutable between liquid, solid and gas. Land is covered and uncovered, exposed / vulnerable and blanketed / safe. Harsh realities of survival can be prominent juxtaposed with a stark cleansing beauty. #sensuouspractice