Poet, painter, dancer, video-maker;
mother, friend, muse, mystery-maker;
a lover, a solitary, believer in divine sybaritism.
While we all have an instinctual sense of what
'art' is, it's from a 'Weltanschauung' that
is itself art because it is part of the process of
conscious life in a world that is a work
of art.
Our universe's creativity is beyond our
wildest imaginings.
'Self-Portraits,' 2006, oil on canvas sheet, board or paper
mostly 8½" x 11" page-sized
(click on image for large size)
Dancing of the Selves, painting and
photographs, ©2006
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Dancing of the Selves
What is the self?
Peel away to nothing.
Only energies,
inner winds and flames
streams of thought
a body of cells of earthdust.
Who am I?
Am I my memories
shifting and changing like ice flows
or the sand of the desert?
We are transducers, relay switches,
cross-currents of selves.
I deconstruct in paint across the canvas.
Am I what I offer--
scrawl of words, strokes of paint,
a flash dance through the air,
a few ideas, a point of gravity
where the light bends?
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My children who
tumbled out of me?
I am a link
in the generations,
an ancestor's granddaughter,
great aunt of the future,
a name for genealogists.
A living person
breathing on this page
where I write quickly.
A slight tangle
in the ganglia
of cells, and
my memories,
gone.
That's not me.
I am only
who I am
loving
you.
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Dancing of the Selves -the process-, photographs,
a sketch, a painting, and the final image
An autobiographical prose poem in 19 sections.
Dedicated to my father, D. Richard Clews, 1922-1984.
Horizon After Horizon of Singing Bowls, an autobiographic prosepoem in 19 sections
'Bowl After Singing Bowl of Horizons,' a prose poem of my life in sections, part scrapbook, part travelogue,
an immigrant poem of the always arriving with its tracings of memories of the singing bowls of horizons traversed,
maps a journey across continents...and is embedded in the following nineteen photomontages.
Composed in Vancouver, Canada in 2004.
(click anywhere on the slideshow to go to large-sized images at Picasa)
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