Art Piece by Russell Hand

Hand An oil painting called Rage by Russell

WORDS OR... ON ART... Poem and Painting

mutter, a

Awhisper, a cry, a mark, a trace, a scream, a shout, something; discard, abject, assumed, sublime, critical, overlooked, a mediation, a context, a moment, a presence, a thought; of being, of absence, exuberant, joyous, bubbling, patient, resonant, saturation, quiet, suspension, political, captivating, curious, seductive, disturbing, mesmerising, philosophical, transform, overwhelm, restless, ephemeral...

A text whose reading starts as understandable but seems to blur and twist, to become illegible out of focus, to take us to some ‘other’; starts as illegible,

unreadable and twists us to shape, to thought, to thinking, to breathe, to laugh, to life, to being...

Something light, heavy, dense, gaseous, transparent, shiny, soft, hard, opaque, beautiful, mundane, mysterious, luminous, repulsive, familiar, different, attracting, glowing, insubstantial, monolithic, everyday, svelte, substantial, fluid...

Art... something to open the mind and heart… Art… to see… to think… to be… to connect… to feel… Art… visual… beautiful… sound... thoughts… breathing… being… Art…

By Russell Hand (words 1996 © ® painting 1991© ®