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, January 28, 2018

Selling Out



Carola 48 x 49,5 cm pastel on cotton


SELLING OUT

is a bummer for
the 70’s era pop-rock super-gods
—their latest
release turning gold even before
it hits the stores, cute little Stevie
on the cover, all big eyed and blond—so
they take revenge on their own success.
Their next album pushes past the
limits of the listenable; the critics kill it….
Bill Clinton sold, and sold again. Except for an abbrevi-
ated era when he seemed to believe  
in something French: Liberte’, Egalite’, Fraternite’—
like a fortune cookie’s prophecy folded into
a triangulated croissant
then dropped, like an orphan, on Wall Street’s door step.
Mick and David sold out
long before Angie caught them
comparing schlongs in a suite
at the Waldorf. Or did I just
make that up? Maybe it wasn’t
the Waldorf. I don’t know, maybe it was their
guitar collections they were comparing.
What does selling out mean in the worlds
of pop music, and politics,
and even religion? It’s 1375, say, and I give
my priest a cow and a couple of odorous goats
for a good word in God’s ear. Meanwhile
the sun has turned us into bones.
Bleached out, broken, scattered across the sands
until, that is, Georgia O’Keeffe
spirit-in-residence on her own Ghost Ranch,
gathers us up, places us on a shelf
with a few other bony relics. Used to take a long
time to get old. I was thirty-five at least ten years—
I thought!—and now every two or three months
little bits of me chip away. I’d sell out in a heartbeat
to slow down the rot. It’s so easy to go Faustian.
End Of Season Sale. Everything Absolutely Must Go!