In this blog we will share with you our vision of beauty, balance, harmony.

As Mark Leach writes in his book Raw Colour with Pastels: “Sound is all around us, and it is musicians who refine that sound into something of beauty. As a painter, I have always felt that my purpose is to craft colour in a similar way, to see through the confusion and seek harmony and beauty.”

And we add: Words, fragments of sentences, spoken noise is all around us, and Ken arranges words in such a way as to capture beauty in the accidental, the ambient soundtrack of life.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Color

Rot Gelb Grün - Red Yellow Green 28,5 x 43,5 cm






THE SPANISH PEACOCK’S LAMENT

The absurdity of his beauty,
nature’s most flamboyant transvestite.
Probably an earlier version of himself
was a terrible dresser, a manic number-crunching    
nerd now paying with interest for the bad karma of  
bad taste, pointlessly gorgeous
like one of those would-be movie stars who
end up doing commercials, underwear or lingerie ads,
or low level sit-com work as the neighborhood knock-out,
brainless but nice, a running joke that chews gum. These days
the Spanish peacock has plenty of competition:
beneath its folkloric needlework every peasant blouse
is set to burst into a duet of chocolate colored nipples.
Unfortunately a bunch of chunky, sheepish Midwesterners
are insulting a silence of heat haze and wheat chaff, their
air-cooled bus—about the shape and color of Moby Dick,
                                                                     the whale, of course, not the book—
blocking a view of field workers making hay
while the Spanish Peacock lifts his skirts and lets loose  
with as haunting a cry of despair as ever heard in these parts. 






 Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
Guitar: John Williams
BBC Proms 2005

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