Forcing House

UNTITLED (PEEL COMPOSITION).   Enamel, oil paint, oilstick, pencil, collage on newspaper.

11" x 11" 2014

UNTITLED (PULSE COMPOSITION).   Enamel, oil paint, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper.

11" x 11" 2014.

I'm putting together some collages for a show in January which are loosely based around a Theodore Roethke poem, Forcing House, from a collection of poems from 1948- THE LOST SON AND OTHER POEMS.

FORCING HOUSE

Vines tougher than wrists

And rubbery shoots,

Scums, mildews, smuts along stems,

Great cannas or delicate cyclamen tips,-

All pulse with the knocking pipes

That drip and sweat,

Sweat and drip,

Swelling the roots with steam and stench,

Shooting up lime and dung and ground bones,-

Fifty summers in motion at once,

As the live heat billows from pipes and pots.

Theodore Roethke.