While Alone at Topanga Thrift

Welcome to my Poetry and Painting Blog!

My last post offered the poem, "Undercurrent", by the talented Janeen Rastell. She told one of her poet friends about this blog. As a result, Val Dering Rojas sent me a chapbook of her poems, called "Ten", with the hope that one of them might inspire one of my paintings. And it did! I thank her for sharing them with me.

While Alone at Topanga Thrift

It occurs to me

that most things are made

to be filled, even now,

these old red dough-bowls

brim with sun;

the worn-soft roughness

of the feedbag, and the hips

of the ginger jar,

created to contain.

The riddle of space

is how insignificance can be ample,

how absence is useful:

the brass candelabra

with its obviousness and arms,

and now

this tiny teacup in my palm.

I wasn't built for this,

but from here,

emptiness appears to be

such a small thing.

..............

In response to this poem, I pulled some bowls from my shelf and created this still life: "Empty Bowls" 8x10 oil on panel

Other notes:

Victoria Park Florist is featuring a collection of my artwork. If you are in the neighborhood, please stop by to see it. 

1129 Weaver Dairy Rd

in Timberlyne Shopping Center

Chapel Hill, NC 27571

phone: 919 967 9394

Also...

I am honored that my oil painting, "Dappled Gate" (below) was accepted into the Fine Arts League of Cary Annual Juried Show. The reception is March 8 from 2-4 and the show will hang until April 18.

You may see more of my art at:

KarenMeredithArt.com

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