Offering and rebuff
2017. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.
The text is from Offering and rebuff by Carl Sandburg. It has always been one of my favorite poems since the late sixties. I have changed “as”, in the poem, to “like” to make the justification of the lines easier in the painting.
I could love you
as dry roots love rain.
I could hold you
as branches in the wind
brandish petals.
Forgive me for speaking so soon.
Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.
Love is a fool star.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star.
This painting is for sale or could equally serve as a starting point for a similar commission.
Paintings are packed in plywood boxes. Shipping and insurance are included in the price in the European Union. Please contact me for other countries.
See your possible choice of picture hung in your house.
Take a good photo of the room where you might like to hang the painting and email it to me. Try and keep the vertical lines in the photo as vertical as possible. Send me the measurements of something in the shot (a radiator, a wall or a table top) that I can use to estimate the scale. I will send you back your photo with the picture on the wall. There is no charge for this, and we can try as many variations as you like.
2017. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.
The text is from Offering and rebuff by Carl Sandburg. It has always been one of my favorite poems since the late sixties. I have changed “as”, in the poem, to “like” to make the justification of the lines easier in the painting.
I could love you
as dry roots love rain.
I could hold you
as branches in the wind
brandish petals.
Forgive me for speaking so soon.
Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.
Love is a fool star.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star.
This painting is for sale or could equally serve as a starting point for a similar commission.
Paintings are packed in plywood boxes. Shipping and insurance are included in the price in the European Union. Please contact me for other countries.
See your possible choice of picture hung in your house.
Take a good photo of the room where you might like to hang the painting and email it to me. Try and keep the vertical lines in the photo as vertical as possible. Send me the measurements of something in the shot (a radiator, a wall or a table top) that I can use to estimate the scale. I will send you back your photo with the picture on the wall. There is no charge for this, and we can try as many variations as you like.
2017. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.
The text is from Offering and rebuff by Carl Sandburg. It has always been one of my favorite poems since the late sixties. I have changed “as”, in the poem, to “like” to make the justification of the lines easier in the painting.
I could love you
as dry roots love rain.
I could hold you
as branches in the wind
brandish petals.
Forgive me for speaking so soon.
Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.
Love is a fool star.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star.
This painting is for sale or could equally serve as a starting point for a similar commission.
Paintings are packed in plywood boxes. Shipping and insurance are included in the price in the European Union. Please contact me for other countries.
See your possible choice of picture hung in your house.
Take a good photo of the room where you might like to hang the painting and email it to me. Try and keep the vertical lines in the photo as vertical as possible. Send me the measurements of something in the shot (a radiator, a wall or a table top) that I can use to estimate the scale. I will send you back your photo with the picture on the wall. There is no charge for this, and we can try as many variations as you like.