Posts by Arts and Culture El Dorado

His Face   Must wood and metal hold him together, hold his face inside themselves? But see how well-worn weaves of fiber stretch, reach with frayed edges seeking to join the unyielding with supple fabric of life. Cracked, 2006, Mixed media

Scythe   Remember the scythe that hangs rusting in my shed – the mowing tool I learned to dance with when I was much younger, before the harvesting of my years. Reaper, 1998, Painted cloth, metal no wood

Chine   Feel  it   in    the     bones      discs      fail     joints    not   quite  aligned trying   for   the vertical   within    softly  eroding flesh.   by Taylor Graham Chine, c. 2005, Mixed media

Golden   A golden case, frame of gathers & folds & pleats & intricately artfully designed by an unseen mind; smooth surfaces polished mirror-bright by invisible hands to form this perfect         golden         resting         place recessed within the artful box, for whom? so deep within, we can’t see the eyes. Is anyone in…

METALSOM  It’s a brass torso Details riveted and Attached baffles Giving a burnt patina, Extruding, somewhat painful wire Around ribs’, ‘n exhibited inducement To reveal full customer list; Plus, source identities of all involved In unnamed substance distribution. After the chain sawing of neck and legs- Remains tossed over the freeway To horrified passing traffic;…

SELF PORTRAIT   Self portrait of same…in The watercolor medium Which anyone who’s picked Up a brush knows to be difficult.   Some well chiseled face of self with Upturned Nose…not the Mediterranean style Large, and bone protruding (like Mine) But a Celtic tribal feature.   Possible; Boudicca herself Who nearly beat Rome But got…

Window Dressing   Think of it: A personal no-rules narrative. Ones’ private emoting and creative collecting. Tin to burlap, string to ash, straw in a window frame.   Patinas with burnt rust, bonfire-orange sheet metaled. Co-existing on immolated wooden slats; seeds, beads, a cross.   Prized now yet once they were the broken things.              …

Bound   Past and Future Bound in a moment of Time and Ties as in what slips away and what binds us charred and woven carved into and out from marking change in scrawl and nails ritual scars Intended to liberate us drawing us into places finding ourselves hooked by Gemma Benton Hooked, 2003, Painted…