Month: April 2016

Chain. Wheelbarrow. Easel. Bench.  And of these four only the bench is still fully functional. In recent years I’ve reassigned all four into one adjustable aesthetic unit—a backyard assemblage with a prime function as art.  Here are two contrasting pictures which illustrate their service as year round objects of contemplation and display.  The images also show how the mind can use objects as scaffolding or skeletons to receive other oxidized artistic imaginings, meditations, reveries.

“Dactyl” for certain word rhythms, and “addict” for my long-term obsession with words.  Also, by association, a Pterodactyl is an ancient flying reptile and serves -like the poem- to provide the “winged flight-fingers” of this poem and its links with themes both distant past and current.

First, here is my original drawing from 1971 with its recently  superimposed poem(2015), followed with a more evolved version of the poem itself (2016).  I fancy it as an interesting disclosure of how a single act of creativity can arrive at varied outcomes & expressions.