Dear readers,
My excuses for not posting blogs here over the last few weeks! It has a good reason though, I am in the final stage of working on my English poetry-book Deciduous Woman. This means it is all about drawing and painting for me at the moment and I bloody love it! It even feels like I find a much deeper kind of satisfaction through drawing and painting compared to writing. I guess there are both drawing and writing phases where I go through, and whatever is right in the moment will feel the most fulfilling.
Deciduous woman will be parted in four, each part coming with an illustration in black, white and grey-tones. The parts are inspired by the four different seasons, but these won't be mentioned on the title-pages. Instead there is a sentence beneath each illustration from one of the poems in that specific part. At the moment the fourth illustration is in the making, after this I will do the cover. To my surprise each season got its own bird! The wren landed on a bulrush in (late?) 'spring', the kingfisher landed on the island with the geisha in 'summer', the owl on 'my' shoulder in autumn, and the swan emerges from a woman in winter.
The sentence belonging to the illustration with the geisha and the kingfisher is: 'If there is only this one island we should live here'. Meant is the island of poetry, or whatever else floats your personal boat. There where we can do what we love, we feel at peace and in flow with life. What do you do on your island where you don't need anything but your dedication to your passion?
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