PRONG COMPOSITION

PRONG COMPOSITION.   oil, enamel, pencil, collage on newspaper  28"h x 10.5"w  2015

Collages

UNTITLED (LIME COMPOSITION)  enamel, oil, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper  11"x11"  2014

UNTITLED (HUMID COMPOSITION)  enamel, oil, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper  11"x11"  2014

UNTITLED (IRRIGATE COMPOSITION)  enamel, oil, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper  11"x11"  2014

UNTITLED (SWEAT COMPOSITION)

UNTITLED (SWEAT COMPOSITION).

Enamel, oil paint, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper.

11" x 11"   2014

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.

UNTITLED (SLIDING DROP)

UNTITLED (SLIDING DROP)   oil, ink, pencil, collage on paper   10" x 11.5"   2014