Posts by Arts and Culture El Dorado

Plunge to Poloti, 2021 Drowner   Falls. The water from the top. Eagle mountain drop Screams the child, I cannot swim   Kat Solares Plunge to the Poloti, 2021, Graphite on paper

Death of a cloud, 2022 Playing Catch   The young boy views the flier Buzz buzz the bee sings loudly Catches him like a firefly   Kat Solares The Death of a Cloud (Arising, Abiding, Returning. The Same Unutterable Place), 2022, Oil on canvas edit

Untitled piece, 2021 Spill the tea   Leaves fall, trees sway, upside-down. Drip drop drape me over Now I can fill my teacup.   Kat Solares Untitled, 2021, Watercolor on paper

Visions in a dark mirror, 2021 Chicken Fight   Chicken licken finger crow Five four flight for me Eye to eye we stand, let’s fight!   Kat Solares Visions in a Dark Mirror, 2022, Oil on canvas

Haikus Inspired by the Dark Mountain, Deep Valley Exhibit   Well, count ’m all up Then the seven syllables, End with the last five.   First there’s being born Then comes a long stretch of time, Before cremation.   The high cost of gas Has become a test of nerves, Evaporation.   Young poets somewhere…

Face of a Woman Stained with Tears 3, 2021 Face of a Woman Stained with Tears   A Kinetic Motion The youthful figure I resent Going somewhere Simple space filling Projecting my own infected mind Harboring jealousy – It lingers, this image Strengthens maybe subsonic motion Instant data Karma transfer But… New York City amplified?…

Plunge to the Poloti, 2021 Plunge to the Poloti   I was at those Falls Defining memory-ware With Glacier polish Surviving Basalt globules From tectonic Mantel’s movement And North South slip joint Pressure as gradual release Under repeated Ice Cycles Glacial clearing- Leaving the top waterfall Funneling down into a fierce Moving sheet of water…

Spirit of the Puffing Wind, 2022 Moon Behind Mountain   Warbling wood thrush sing Whistling from thickets afar Soft sounds this evening   Sandhill cranes take flight Snowy plovers dance in dunes Trumpeter swans watch   Flocks in formation Sign it’s time for migration Better weather south   Tundra swans seek asylum On river delta…

Spirit of the Puffing Wind, 2022, oil on canvas Talon & Wing   Sudden overhead banner in wind – Red-shoulder Hawk – scream-dance thru oaks.   Taylor Graham Spirit of the Puffing Wind, 2022, Oil on canvas

Fire in the Sky, 2022, oil on canvas Fire in the Sky   Dark ridge, deep canyons forest combusted to cloud – earth-scape in fire fall.   Landmarks torched away switchbacks where the trees held us – such sudden drop-offs.   On the burn-scar fringe skeleton of juniper aspen leafing out.   Taylor Graham Fire…