![]() ![]() Spencer Shakespeare’s paintings are divisions dissolving, gateways, as author James Finley describes, “where we assume the stance of least resistance to being overtaken by oneness.” These places are where we momentarily hold the fleeting and things not easily reducible, places where we realize we are the mariners of both sides. Taken further, the spirit self is similar to the ocean and land is like the body vessel we over identify with. The coast is a theater of illusion and is an ample stage for the ocean’s biggest secret- we are minor interruptions in vastness beyond our comprehension. When standing on a beach at low tide and full sun there are moments when senses fail and you can feel like you are moving when standing still, distances become hard to discern and even sound loses its context. ![]() The artist wrings out any extra content, as if suggesting that to truly understand the sea one must move beyond mere observation. Extremely textured half shapes and loosely stippled brushstrokes both squeeze and release imagery and energy with the momentum of a maelstrom. In the paintings “Warrior Falconer” and “Guardian” the sea and shore are rendered confidently chaotic, as if to say balance is death but imbalance is evolution. Spencer Shakespeare is an author of similar verse and both artists can convince us that borders and boundaries are illusions of the ego and are made up mysteries of the sea and self. Rather, they are the making and undoing of both things at once. Twombly’s “poems” are lines, letters and numbers both visible and indecipherable and are neither completely poems nor descriptions of the sea. ![]() The modest size paintings, completed at and inspired by the Italian coast, are waves of graphite scribbles, dribbles of white house paint and etched edits of gritty dark gray wax. At its most literal, clouds can be monumental dark birds forewarning of future storms.Ĭy Twombly’s “Poems to the sea,” is a series of 24 sheets of paper covered in markings of pencil, paint and crayon. Or perhaps a plank of a white washed picket fence from where Shakespeare's Tom Sawyer coaxes and convinces us there is something simple or easy about painting a seascape. The white pointed center shape seen in proximity to pink suggests the cloaked identity of a Philip Guston figure. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect clip. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. “Storm Bird”- What could be ground can also be seen as the gold prongs of a crown, everything important existing above its kingdom where clouds of equal pink and white rise tall like ethereal ship and sail. Lockwood & Co (2023) - S01E04 Sweet Dreams clip with quote - thunder rumbling - Long afloat on shipless oceans Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. ![]()
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