Posts tagged ‘Kelly Lunes’
Feb 28
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Frog backflips
“First snow
Feb 22
“When the winter chrysanthemums go, / there’s nothing to write about / but radishes” —Matsuo Bashō
Haiku brush
Painting old Edo
Tokyo
“The dragonfly
can’t quite land
on that blade of grass”
―Matsuo Bashō
The Gweilo
In a red-eye rush
Brushes up
“Wrapping the rice cakes,
with one hand
she fingers back her hair”
―Matsuo Bashō
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Feb 19
“Why so scrawny, cat? / Starving for fat fish or mice… / Or backyard love?” ―Matsuo Bashō
Haiku-san
Zazen Samurai
Brush master
“How admirable!
to see lightning and not think
life is fleeting”
―Matsuo Bashō
Jan 18
“Miami is always super, duper lit”—Post Malone
In Outtakes
Nice Miami Vice
Remastered
Miami is too bright and colorful to miss—Anshula Varma
Jan 10
“Give me the streets of New York”—Walt Whitman
Make it here
Make it anywhere
People swear
I’m in a New York state of mind—Billy Joel
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”—Leonard Cohen
Stardust haze
Colors ricochet
Prisms smash
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass—Anton Chekhov
Dec 9
“We feel the chill north winds coarse through the home despite the locked and bolted doors… this is winter, which nonetheless brings its own delight” —Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonnets*
Cutting edge
Ornately Baroque
Artistry
We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously,
for fear of tripping and falling.
Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground,
And rising, hasten on across the ice in case it cracks
—Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonnets*
Dec 6
“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” —Grant Wood
Backstory
Gothic revival
A paint job
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow—Grant Wood
Nov 30
“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums”—Salvador Dali
Dream vision
Inverts perception
Surreally
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams—Salvador Dali
Nov 20
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch