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the earth

With my very first painting series The Earth, I used my research on the human heart as inspiration to represent the earth as a living, breathing organ.  To my surprise, I kept going with this articulation in both narrative and image.  Written at the same time as the paintings were created, my poem Raving Mad (below) also speaks to this expression.  

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"A Layer" oil on canvas
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"The Garden" oil on canvas
   
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"Relaxing into Another" oil on canvas >SOLD <
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"Above it All" oil on canvas
    
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"As We Dance and Sing" oil on canvas
    

Raving Mad

Earths
rusty red crust
slowly being gnawed
peeling off layer by layer
under this constant pressure.
Stomping and beating
Gouged and scratched
red energy draining under incessant raining
bleeding through
reaching blood red core
Steaming arteries pulsating      burst!!

Roots groping for growth,
raging against injustice,
frantically in a frenzy,
dying a slow red death.

This earth resigns itself prematurely to dying.

We have laid old age upon it and
anger runs red raging brilliantly
flowing through artists to poets
of rhymes and reason.



Poetry by Phyllis Kirk




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