splendor under southern skies

Medium

Digital

Artist Notes

© 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved _________________________________________________________________ This Joy of Landscape _________________________________________________________________ This joy of landscape - the gilt-edged grasses on the early morning common - is quick to pass but lingers on like a well-hung canvas _________________________________________________________________ One collects such images and stores them lovingly in a profuse architecture of chambers tier upon tier until one day you simply lock the door and walk away leaving perhaps a little catalogue of bland entries for those that stay next door _________________________________________________________________ This is mine That is yours together we sing a grand oratorio a muted requiem _________________________________________________________________ Dance together to the same music and our finger tips will not match precisely. To the casual observer, however, we remain one. _________________________________________________________________ So our apparent little solitudes - such painfully lonely lives - melt away while walking into the mystery seas of early morning grass ~ © Michael Kantey, South African poet _________________________________________________________________ Dedicated to my friend, artist Constance Widen, a South African now living in Canada, from whose photograph this landscape of her native land is painted in digital oils.