About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
|
Everyday Canvas #927967 added January 28, 2018 at 9:54pm Restrictions: None
My Painting
Prompt: You've been commissioned by your local art gallery to come up with a painting for their next exhibit...but you can only use three colors and it has to be an inanimate, stationary object. What did you come up with and why?
==============
My painting will have to be a Tiffany floor lamp with gray-brown, blue-green, and bright yellow colors. I could use the bright yellow for the light the lamp emits as well as a highlighter on the glass shade.
I chose this lamp because a lamp lights up what is dark, and a Tiffany lamp itself is a work of art. Globe shapes are reserved for the floor lamps, and even the word globe has its connotations. Lighting up the globe would be a wonderful thought, and thoughts reveal how we make sense of the world and what we do in it and why. It is a matter of value judgment, I suppose.
Then imagining further, a Tiffany lamp is a rare antique like some poets who sit in the gloom of a lamp sighing with a broken heart, while Sara Teasdale writes,
“If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
When I go down the long steep Road of Darkness,
I shall not fear the everlasting shadows,
Nor cry in terror.”
|
© Copyright 2018 Joy (UN: joycag at Writing.Com). All rights reserved. Joy has granted InkSpot.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
|