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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425720635623568709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808721784996538879.post-57531806701822595852014-02-26T23:53:00.000-05:002014-02-26T23:53:00.693-05:00All The Faces<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The KIngs Contemplate the Cosmos,2013 by Coco Berkman is a stark black and white linocut 17 " X 20" printed with crayon black oil based ink onto a sheet of 22" X 26" Magnani Pescia paper</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lately, every time I sit down to sketch, faces come out of my pencil. It's an effort for me to draw a landscape into the composition. All these people. Who are they? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On a recent trip to New York City, I found myself naturally drawn to looking at art works where expressions on faces drew me in. People and animals both. My boyfriend and I went to <b>The Cloisters</b> for the first time and then we went back a few days later. Then we went back yet again. I'd always heard how amazing this museum housing Renaissance Art was, and I'm amazed how long it took me to finally get around to going!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> I was richly rewarded with the goldmine of fabulous faces in the art works in the Cloisters collection. Below are just some of the examples that inspired me.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/visit-the-cloister</span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Looking at these images affirms to me why I'm obsessed with faces. I suspect that it has to do with the expressions on faces. These facial expressions are an animated evidence of our humanity...all we get to experience in the experience of our lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My delight in the works I discovered at The Cloisters has given me permission to follow the thread of my obsession with faces and their expressions..</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I think I spent too much time on my latest print,"Fergus Rules". The great thing is I learned much about determination and process.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The imagined image grew out of 2 separate drawings done a few years ago...quick sketches that became quirky characters. I put the 2 characters in a landscape I created for them from landscapes I've taken solace from...Stage Fort Park in Gloucester and the back of my sister and brother in laws house in Gouldsboro Maine. I loved the initial drawing and decided to make a very large reductive linocut; 24" X 36" and to have many colors. I probably put more hours into this print than any other print I've created.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">After 6 weeks of 10 hour stints working in my basement studio, the print was still not done...I had 3-4 colors to go and all at once the image started pulling away from me. It seemed to have it's own ideas about color and intensity and I have to say the color direction was sometimes very frightening to me as I had invested so much time [and materials] into the print. I became afraid of destroying it completely. I hung one sheet of the print up over my bed so that I was studying it before I went to sleep and again upon awakening. There were times that I loved the unfolding image and times when I absolutely hated it. I think I was looking at it too much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I kept reciting old Art Nuts in my head like "There are no mistakes in Art" and "It's good to work a piece into a complex corner...thats when the potential for great things to happen can be possible" and "You'll know what the next step is when you take it". </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The print is complete now. I made an edition of 15 that I'm happy with and I even broke one of my printmaking rules and added a few improvised touches with a rubber tipped brush I bought that worked fabulously pushing around oil based ink.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">June 16 is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". "Bloomsday"is named after one of the novel's main characters, Leopold Bloom, or as his beloved wife calls him, "Poldy". June 16 is the day wherein the novel takes place.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> A colorful cast of characters, Priests and Prostitutes, Drunks and Spinsters, Publicans and Musicians weaves their way throughout the pubs and common rooms and libraries and streets and strands and beaches of "our Fair City", Dublin Town.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What's the big deal? What other holiday named for a piece of literature?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Jame's Joyce, with a finely honed determination of a great writer had embraced the moment he lived in so thoroughly that he indeed created a time machine capable of transporting any future person to visit Dublin Ireland on June 16 1904 and walk her streets and speak to her citizens.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Joyce spent years of his life writing Ulysses and is quoted as saying, "The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works" Yow. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">O.K. So. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"> I promise to give it a shot James. You are worth it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve been working on a series of prints with imagery inspired by “Ulysses” for more than 3 years now and have completed 4 linoleum prints, 1 soft ground etching and 1 reductive woodcut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I’m no Joyce scholar. In fact, I have yet to finish reading the book!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">So why might you ask, am I spending hours drawing imagery gleaned from those beloved pages?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I find my “project” a good strategy for continuing to pick up the book and dive in deeply and am always, always, richly rewarded with more insight, intelligence and even humanity. I believe that reading Ulysses is a consciousness raising device [even if you don't understand one sentence logically!]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">I love to paint. It seems every time I feel the desire to paint there is an awful lot of broo ha ha going on in my head regarding how to approach it. Needless fretting. Insecurity. Anguish. My desire to get it right ...not make mistakes.Heres the <i>thing</i> I've needed to learn time and again; painting is <i>all about making mistakes. </i>For that matter, any creative endeavor is all about making mistakes. How many times I've needed to remind myself of this. The key to getting working is getting working.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> I'm a great workshop taker. I love workshops and or continuing ed classes. I think they can be magical for someone who feels in a rut as I often have, especially in my earlier life with young children and financial obligations to provide room and board for all of us. My treat would always be to sign up for a short course at an art college or night school, studying whatever was pulling me in at the moment. The most important thing i learned from taking art classes of any kind is that the teaching inevitably is all about assuring students that they have permission to jump right in . Be willing to make mistakes. One of my favorite teachers ever was the artist, Tim Hawkesworthy . He was great to listen to talk about making art. He said that when it gets painful, when you're stuck and especially when you are embarassed by what you are painting, you are on the right track. Wow. So true!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">The first painting I ever sold was a small painting that was such a hopeless mess that it was painful for me to look at and I actually needed to put it in the trash to avoid looking at it. Days later,while working on another painting, I retrieved the trashed painting telling myself I'd use the canvas to work out a color question...nothing to lose, just use it as I would use a scrap of newsprint. within minutes that painting was transformed. Thats the power and magic of painting. There's always so much more going on than we think. Thats why art making is important. Its all about problem solving. Resolution. New resolution. Creative engagements crack open limits of all kinds in our minds in our worlds. We don't know what we don't know. </span></div>
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Six years ago when I turned 50, I did take the leap every artist eventually feels compelled to take and made the art making my priority.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">I am presently more committed than ever to producing my work and it is different in every way from the work I thought I'd be producing. I had visions of large abstract canvases...with colors and complexities akin to Philip Guston or Howard Hodgkins. Indeed, I set out on this path and then one day was compelled to change my tack. I look at my current work and am mystified. My work entails much drawing and most often has comic figures and obscure narratives, obscure even to me.<br />
I am convinced that the person making this art is my six year old self who used to spend hours in the library reading books on how to make little people out of acorns. The six year old me who would awaken every morning literally for years determined to build myself a tree house in our yard but never having the materials or tools or knowledge or freedom to pull it off.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Welcome to the blog formerly known as Fattybirdpress. I wanted to start fresh and thus the new name. I live fairly close to historic Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, Massachusetts..."They that go down to the sea in ships", etc.</i></span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425720635623568709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808721784996538879.post-10649806258276084232010-01-06T09:21:00.002-05:002010-01-06T09:22:52.451-05:00Linoleum Printmaking Class<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRT4gCb0x9BZoJNPPihRQuudHKZiP_RPnbBdQ4fkRp6EipxoCj0-alWmAznw9Mf8_LVUw1Gm9IKPeHV8xKJ8C-dRDRoAMI9_fwWQIVrtyBQAhU187b22H8PhZ0bQIdWRVdDpkuguaFOEBc/s1600-h/mauraandcharlie.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRT4gCb0x9BZoJNPPihRQuudHKZiP_RPnbBdQ4fkRp6EipxoCj0-alWmAznw9Mf8_LVUw1Gm9IKPeHV8xKJ8C-dRDRoAMI9_fwWQIVrtyBQAhU187b22H8PhZ0bQIdWRVdDpkuguaFOEBc/s320/mauraandcharlie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423632108138693346" /></a><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Comic Sans MS"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Happy New Year everyone! I’m teaching an 8 week Printmaking course at Center Street Arts. Its an art space affiliated with Cape Ann YMCA and its located at 7 Center Street, around the corner from Passports on Main Street. I have much to teach about hand pulled Linoprint making, a user friendly, fun, and , I think, very DYNAMIC art form. We will be meeting on </span><span style="font: 16.0px Comic Sans MS; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #435e19">Monday nights from 7:15 pm. until 9:15 pm.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> The price is very reasonable...$60. for YMCA members and $90. for everyone else. Linoleum, water based inks and student quality papers will be provided, but I’m encouraging folks to invest in good quality japanese cutting tools [list provided below]. If you’ve ever been inclined to produce some wonderful prints, now is the time! {Also an opportunity to hang out on a Monday night with some inspired others.}</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Comic Sans MS"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">To sign up, Please get in touch with Katy Milne,[ <a href="mailto:milnek@northshoreymca.org"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099">milnek@northshoreymca.org</span></a> 978.283.0470 ext. 1714 ], or myself, Coco Berkman, <a href="mailto:cocoberkman@gmail.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099">cocoberkman@gmail.com</span></a> 978 283 8327.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Comic Sans MS"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Or just show up next Monday night and we’ll work out details later.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Comic Sans MS"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hope to see you then.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Comic Sans MS"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Coco</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS', serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425720635623568709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808721784996538879.post-27449141378337027442009-05-31T06:52:00.001-04:002012-01-26T19:47:21.024-05:00Drawing a poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX5_xEGHeE5isiqAsD1eQNV3bQetfrIfzzTvryHnrF8VZKlZbcZx8PF7cu2yTqwbJ8qZ2UgfZyifK5FNy__GvG2wNZ8kCbQl9ByhpaNGapeeEAu4YzGyXj253gCVTDDdZ1G-aC8LZP6LC-/s1600/sully.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX5_xEGHeE5isiqAsD1eQNV3bQetfrIfzzTvryHnrF8VZKlZbcZx8PF7cu2yTqwbJ8qZ2UgfZyifK5FNy__GvG2wNZ8kCbQl9ByhpaNGapeeEAu4YzGyXj253gCVTDDdZ1G-aC8LZP6LC-/s320/sully.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Last summer I approached John Ronan with the idea of creating some images </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>inspired by his poetry.He was very receptive to the idea and invited me to choose </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>the poems that appealed to me most.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>From the beginning of the project I determined not to ‘illustrate‘ the poems I’d </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>chosen. I wanted my visual images to have a sense of the poetic and to come </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>through my own experience, yet use the eloquence of Johns poetry to jump-start </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>my imagination.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I found myself most attracted to poems whose subject matter had a spark of </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>whimsy at the same time dealing with issues of homesickness, aging and mortality.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I quickly began to notice by spending time reading his poetry that John is an </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>extremely visual writer. He notices things. The things in the landscape that grab </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>us... crows in trees guarding a road a few towns over , a view out a window on the </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>space shuttle, young children looking at sculpture in a museum, a scene in a </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>kitchen decades in the past. Those things you catch in the corner of your eye as </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>you’re going through your list of daily errands and challenges. John notices these </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>things that others pass over. The people and animals and sounds, the sparks and </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>the glimmers.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>He’s right there in the landscape. As observer. You are standing there beside him </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>and he’s pointing it all out to you. Well really he’s telling you, singing it in fact, as a </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>poet will. By spending time reading these poems I can almost glimpse the </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>processes he invokes in composing a poem and I reiterate to myself why I’d rather </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>paint than write.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>While looking through my sketchbooks at images I was fond of, I began noticing </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>many drawings that worked really well with the poems I’d picked out. I began to </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>work the drawings into prints for some of the poems. For others I used a more </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>improvised method of painting. I’m pleased with the results and very grateful to </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>John for giving a wide berth in the selection and interpretation of the eleven poems </i></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I’ve chosen to work with.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"> </span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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