Evelyn de Morgan, "Earthbound" (1897)
you wanted blues and reds; you knew what was white and what was not.
i have lived my life in the decadence of marines and merlots. you called for me to let down my hair so you could scale my tower. instead i shaved it, letting it run down: pools of ink in the floor; you thought you would fall in. i dipped my toes in it, tipped with diamond, and wrote my name on the mahogany. you demanded simplicity so i discarded my bracelets and silks and walked barefoot over floors the color of january and rugs of anger. you cursed the nakedness of my body; the hue voluptuous was too much for you, and you could not distinguish between glorious and heretical. you accused me of witchcraft: eyes of threatening apocalypse, lips the shade of orpheus. you lashed out at the impertinence of my palette and i shattered like porcelain underneath those blows. but still i cut you, splinters of me beneath your skin. in a voice of primary colors you denounced me, pronounced me unholy, named my tower Traitor and left me alone to refashion myself in the shades of complexity: i who knew the difference between yellow and gold.
-LoA
5 comments:
Wow, powerful and intricate and it almost makes sense. If it is the aesthetic truth each perceives differently, or a vision of Eve, or God molding Adam from clay, or I don't know what, I keep reading it, and perhaps that is what is its purpose. In our appreciation of beauty, we sense the Infinite.
Ya Haqq!
i admit that i am not entirely sure what is going on here either. i have my reading of course, but at a certain point the writer becomes just another reader, lol. writing at 2am is not conducive to a lot more than stream of consciousness. all i had was the one idea, contrasting the voice of primary colors with a voice more complex and defiant. i suspect this is something i will return to down the road.
Good thing you're not sure, because I've no clue what's going on here, but I love it nevertheless.
BTW I'm doing a site overhaul and am looking for a central banner image - something Pakistani, maybe architecture, soulful, reflective. Since you're the artist among us, maybe you have some ideas. Oh yeah - and it's gotta be free, no copyright.
yes i kinda like it too, despite my own cluelessness. maybe its just vanity on my part.
i will give some thought to your question about a banner while i am on the road tomorrow.
best wishes,
LoA.
there are some wonderful images of pakistani architecture at wikimedia.
my personal faves are from the shalamar gardens, and this one
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Mosque_by_gul791.jpg
which i thought was beautiful.
all the photos at wikimedia commons project are for public use.
pakistani architecture is found at ….
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architecture_of_Pakistan
best wishes,
LoA.
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