Recollections
Poems and images created ages ago, suspended in time and floating in some forgotten web space, once retrieved from those soundless confines, then dusted and polished, often rekindle strong memories or express today's musings.
Longer
you evaporated
you disintegrated me
i would have loved
to love you
longer
than your telephone number
stayed
in the mist
on the mirror
of my hotel room
i would have loved
to live longer
for you
than that telephone number
scribbled on paper
with the burnt end
of a match
i loved
to want you
i would have wanted
to love you
longer
Fluid flames
Mary pointed me to another great online tool, Flame. I quickly began painting and writing, noticing instantly the flame-like quality of the trailing strokes—transparent, iridescent shapes materializing on the dark canvas, like diaphanous veils. In a sense, completely the opposite of flames that consume and destroy matter, these drifting forms grow and consume but space. I remember when, as a child, I would play for hours in my lab/studio, dropping coloured water from an eyedropper into test-tube like containers filled with clear water, admiring the dancing coloured streaks as the liquid veils sank to the bottom, eventually dissolving.
Harmony night grid
Harmony is indeed a great sketch tool, offering spontaneity, fluidity. It's just plain fun. This 2-layer image is made up of an inverted grid sketched in Harmony which I then superimposed over a photo of myself in order to see how colour could be introduced by using the Luminosity filter in Photoshop. The program provides black and white renditions only, which is great, but sometimes, one may want a dash of colour which could be introduced either through painting on a separate layer above, or by painting directly on a new layer.
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