Cupid with the Wheel of Time, oil on canvas, 1520.
Titian, 1490-1576, Venetian. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Now one eye daylight and one not there was a lifetime before they flew their true colors
Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware; steps up the triple level of an estate garden in process of restoration after decades of abandonment
but I must have known the moment I was born the pans of the balance
Woman Holding a Balance, 1664, oil on canvas.
Johannes Vermeer, Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675, Dutch.
National Gallery, Washington DC
swinging along with me always two poles
Reverence, 1915, oil and metallic paint on paperboard.
Frances Picabia, 1879-1953, French. Baltimore Art Museum
with the seasons rocking between them
Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware; steps up the triple level of an estate garden in process of restoration
and the familiar the unexplored the city
New York! New York! color lithograph, 1950
Sue Fuller, 1914-2006, American. Philadelphia
the country abroad almost at home and home never quite there just the way it was before
Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware; steps up the triple level of an estate garden in process of restoration
left foot right foot
Torrington, graphite and coloured pencil on vellum.
Rachel Falzon, MFA graduate at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia in 2022 (no other information given)
on the same way
my own way
Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware.
Pathway into the estate garden in process of restoration
of finding and losing and in my own time coming to one love one place day and night as they came to me
Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware; steps up the triple level of an estate garden in process of restoration
but the knowing and the rain
The Reflecting Pool at Winterthur, Delaware, in early summer
the dream and the morning
Fragmentary Bliss, 2021, acrylic and airbrush ink on panel.
Isaac Tin Lei Win, born 1976. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
the wind the pain
Pain, Pain, Fear, Fear, 2006, acrylic on birchwood.
Linda Lee Alter, American born 1939. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
the love the burning
Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware
From a rectangular garden planted with roses and peonies and milkweed and other plants, steps lead up three levels of mature flora to a mansion on the top of a rocky promontory to which access is barred because the house is falling down after decades of neglect.
The railings in front of the abandoned mansion at Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware
it seems you must let them come so you can let them go you must let them go so you let them come.
Cupid with the Wheel of Time, oil on canvas, 1520.
Titian, 1490-1576, Venetian. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Oh, the sunlight boding restoration by human sustained goodwill – that may and will turn the wheel of time back and on the constructive track, correcting destruction!
And – the continuum of man-made forged iron lace projected on the pathway which your camera added up to the shadow-game of reflected sunlight met by cold standing wall-structures … !
Where you posit your snap-gathering-shots is a wonderwork fabric which then uses words to impress meanings in the thinking mind.
Thank you!
Thank you, Ioana, for your generous comment with such evocative words – ‘cold standing wall-structures’ and ‘shadow-game’.
None of us can imagine the abandonment of a place so beautiful as Gibraltar; and we are so content that the garden is being restored even if the mansion, encouraged now to self-destruct by new owners, will be replaced by something less beautiful than it was!
Oh, the sunlight boding restoration by human sustained goodwill – that may and will turn the wheel of time back and on the constructive track, correcting destruction!
And – the continuum of man-made forged iron lace projected on the pathway which your camera added up to the shadow-game of reflected sunlight met by cold standing wall-structures … !
Where you posit your snap-gathering-shots is a wonderwork fabric which then uses words to impress meanings in the thinking mind.
Thank you!
Thank you, Ioana, for your generous comment with such evocative words – ‘cold standing wall-structures’ and ‘shadow-game’.
None of us can imagine the abandonment of a place so beautiful as Gibraltar; and we are so content that the garden is being restored even if the mansion, encouraged now to self-destruct by new owners, will be replaced by something less beautiful than it was!
Sarah
Such a beautiful post!
Your images are gorgeous💐
Thank you, Luisa, for your always generous comment!
You’re highly welcome 🌹🌹🌹