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November 08th, 2018

11/8/2018

Ekphrastic* Poem on my Own Artwork - by Anne Miles

Of the four works
created at the art workshop
it was, at first, my least favourite.
Too abstract, for my taste, anyway
it looked like the dog's breakfast.

But I was patient with it.
I put it up, at home, where I could study it.
Entities began to peep out
from its negative spaces
from the folds
of its gut-like convolutions.

There's an alien
with big green eyes
and a conical red hat.
There's the guy with the multi-hued
pompadour and the green moustache.
I've given him a cheerful leer
with the black ink pen I've used
to make him come alive.

There's the orange cat and the blue cat
(the latter with her black ink tail
curled round the piece of “gut” she sits on).
There's the blue bird and the red mask.
There's the woman with wild green hair,
the yellow flower, the giant strawberry,
the big beetle with green and yellow wing casings.
The “gut” transforms into a path
winding, wandering, tying it all together
bringing order into
the colourful chaos of dots and splotches.

This is my new favourite painting!
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