Week 11: Stairs
Year 2021. What does it mean to you? To Addie and I, it is full of hope and promise. It is a turning point. The beginning of the end of a pandemic. The end of a volatile presidency and a return to sensible governance. The end of quarantines, isolation, and social distancing and a return to physical human interaction. We will once again congregate, gather with those we love, see them up close, touch and feel again … not in an impersonal virtual space, but in the very real and beautiful world.
WEEK ELEVEN
The 11th theme for the year is stairs.
My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air …
ADDIE’S PAINTING
Steps
MY POEM
The Stair
I beheld the golden-haired one,
high on her throne.
I thought her reign eternal.
In her single eye shone,
brilliant and blinding,
a million paths unfolded.
Curiously though,
she sovereign stood
to descend the stair once climbed.
And my head crooked low,
for so it mournfully thought,
‘Even God submits to Time.’
ABOUT THE PAINTING & POETRY PROJECT
We want to celebrate 2021 with an outpouring of creativity and optimism!
We’ve selected 52 themes (one theme per week for the year), and each week for 2021, I will write a poem and Addie will paint a painting inspired by that theme.
This is the sort of big project that artists live for … where we can say what we yearn to say. Big picture stuff. Heart wrenching stuff. Expect surprises, love, and a passion for life.
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studioalchemy.art/
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