NEWBORN WINGS EMERGING

NEWBORN WINGS

A pair of newborn wings 

Fluttered like hands hooked at the thumbs.

Open. Close. Open. Close.

Making broom tracks in the snow 

And flickering shadows in the crisp moonlight.

I opened the window, reached out 

and gave them a boost.

My hands in their feathers.

Up. Down. Rise. Descend.

Off you go.

-C.Kane

Left Wing In progress with Tree Self emerging_Week 2 

Dearest Readers,

A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to one half of a new diptych entitled “The Winged Dervish”, acrylic and oil on canvas. Here's where I am so far. (See Above). It is still in progress, morphing as I add the left wing to the right, seeing what happens when all that shape and color crashes against the opposite side. 

And here is your first look at the left side in progress:

Winged Dervish-Right Wing in progress with Tree Self  emerging

Too much going on? Maybe. Let’s see what happens this week as I add some paint here, sand away some color there. The image leads the way to what will stay and what will go. I sit back and stare, roll my studio chair away and lean back to get a wider view. 

Studio View-side by side
My head says Not right yet. I need some quiet inside or outside the pair of wings. I’ve added my spirit self to the mix…the outline of a tree slumbering across the winged landscape for stability, and strength in flight. The skulls remain along a branch, contained, but buzzing around to spoil the party.

THE WINGED DERVISH

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.” -Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Early morning, NewYear’s Day, Peacham, Vermont 

Dearest Readers,

The Winged Dervish_41in x 36in_acrylic and oil on canvas_January 1, 2019

Today I introduce you to one half of a new diptych entitled “The Winged Dervish”, acrylic and oil on canvas. It is in progress, incomplete, but full of fire as it promises to take flight.

Winged Dervish_Detail_ January 1, 2019

On Easter Sunday 2011in Atlanta Georgia I launched this blog, The Interwoven Heart…to give voice to deep, deliberate new directions in my writings, and visual work”. 

Today I’m relaunching The Interwoven Heart after a year of silence, a new home purchase, knee surgery, and finding myself like a whirling dervish spinning too fast in multiple life directions. Happily, in the last month, my studio has become electric again, a paroxysm of redirected creative juice. More paintings, drawings, and portraits exploring transformation, “being a tree” and being in community will follow throughout the year. 

I hope you will join me!