Elven World Starseeds
The Art of Andrea Kowch
"The beauty that emerges from woundedness," O'Donohue noted, "is a beauty infused with feeling: a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold beauty of perfect form. This is a beauty that has suffered its way through the ache of desolation until the words or music emerged to equal the hunger and desperation at its heart....
The Merry Wanderers
by Andrea Kowch
A few years ago I discovered the art of this lady and it inspired this poem....
The ever known glade
a bee she wore upon her dress
on the bodice of her pinaforeness
three daisies plucked
from silver green grass
this woman I saw, nae she was but a young lass
for on her face I witnessed such emotion
a longing perhaps, a sadness, devotion
on the hillside behind her, a grazing in green
two goats that weren't tethered, one eyeing the scene
this lass held the wisdom from many years far away
memories of patterns, yet to come into play
there was a path high above her, with a bend to the right
that cut out abruptly within her own sight
it led to the woodlands that couldn't be seen
if she entered, she knew, she would be her own dream
now back to the tree, two pipes I can see
one slightly hidden behind the other small tree
or is that the colour, brought about by the shade
the darkness perhaps, of that Ever Known Glade
there's always been two trees one bound to the earth
the other per chance a reflection of mirth
a clamour for succour, to understand self at long last
her father, Mr Clayborne, delivered...now passed
Julie
June 2013
edit May 2024
Julie
We each are drawn to some works at the time because in some way we resonate with the artist, I can't remember how I was around this particular time as its way back now. I note that when I read something I wrote ages ago I change in myself so I edit either an odd word or two, sometimes it's all hard to define, it's just a feeling quite subtle more often than not.
When I started out with the last painting I did there was no intention other than using up some green paint that I put on the fairy picture. The image through the brush strokes seemed to be awakening before my eyes and I was keen to follow the lines with my interpretation of the brush strokes...that's only happened once. It's like I was guided and the rest followed with the stone, lake, sword, castle\tower on the hill
May 19
ënagualí~ᏉLAᗪἇ ኔጡ።
Yes but being drawn to a artists works because you resonate with the artists or their pictures is one thing interpreting them is another,that was the point I was trying to get across at least.
May 19
Julie
ahhhh ok
May 19