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| The Green Flower, Sarah Myers Acrylic on canvas, 2019 |
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| The Green Flower, Sarah Myers, detail of face. |
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| The Green Flower, Sarah Myers, detail of flower. |
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| The Green Flower, Sarah Myers, detail. |
December 6, 2019
The Green Flower - Painting by Sarah Myers
The Sunbeam - Poetry by Sarah Myers
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| Sunlight Photography (c) Sarah Myers 2019 |
A droplet from the fountain of the Sun
Rolled through my window to my floor today;
I saw it melt like molten sugar, run,
And flow together, laughing as it lay.
I touched it, barely, with an outstretched toe;
It climbed my foot, and like a tiny bird
Sat perched with golden feathers all aglow
To sing the sweetest silence. And I heard.
November 28, 2019
Sidewards Glance - Painting by Sarah Myers
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| Sidewards Glance, Sarah Myers. Acrylic on canvas, 2019. |
The dashing sweep of her hat darts in same direction as her eyes… Black, red, blue all rush across the canvas of the first painting in my newest series of artworks. Simple, rapid brush strokes define the face with its sideways glance and slightly parted, slightly smiling lips. A wider range of play from a larger brush, loaded with rich, intense black, gives the rough outline of the hat. Yellow-orange and even metallic gold speak from time to time to detail the woman's lively expression or the edges of her stylish headgear. November 2019.
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| Sidewards Glance, Sarah Myers. Detail. |
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| Sidewards Glance. Detail. Sarah Myers. |
August 14, 2019
Two Ladies and Sky - Drawings by Sarah Myers
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| Lady with a Flock of Sparrows, Sarah Myers Charcoal on paper, 2019 |
A lady with a flock
of sparrows fluttering in the air behind her, the whirl of their
wings echoing the spiral of the long ringlets trailing down her
shoulder… and a woman staring earnestly out at us from a background
filled with climbing, billowing clouds which mirror her bouffant
bows, her frills and edges of lace. These two drawings are part of a
recent collection of artwork in charcoal, sketched with simple lines
across large sheets of paper. The darker, stronger charcoal contours follow paler pencil lines which form the preparatory stage.
I am happy to
finally return to my blog – after a long and very unintended
absence – and to post these two sketches here.
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| Woman with Clouds, Sarah Myers Drawing in charcoal, 2019 |
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| Lady with Sparrows, detail of face. Sarah Myers |
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| Woman with Clouds, Sarah Myers Detail of face |
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| Lady with Sparrows, detail of birds. Sarah Myers |
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| Woman with Clouds, detail Sarah Myers |
March 23, 2019
Eris with the Apple of Discord - Sculpture by Sarah Myers
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| Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers |
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| Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers 2018, terracotta |
The precious fruit poised in her hand, she turns, watching for her moment; heavy cloak clutched tightly across her side but right arm lightly lifted to aim. Her eyes glow with a sudden spark…
In Greek legend, Eris – Discord – stirred by mischief, secretly brings a golden apple inscribed “To the Fairest” with her to a wedding feast on Mount Olympus, and, at the height of the revels, tosses it into the midst of the celebrating deities. The treasure, claimed and counter-claimed by the most powerful goddesses of the Grecian theogony, causes a quarrel which wreaks havoc on the serenity of the divine abode, and this squabble in its turn causes the grief and pain of the Trojan War among mortals far below.
I have never been able to feel that the gravity of the results could place a greater responsibility Eris than on the other mightier beings that took the conflict so much farther; and her playful objectivity (after all, the apple could have remained hers) gives a certain sympathy to her place in the myth. So I chose this subject in spite of its mischievous, almost militant, nature, as I saw in it the possibility to capture a form I've long wanted to investigate; a sculptural moment that is both the height of action and a point of stillness and suspended motion. Her hand is just at that transition where the impetus will be imparted to the fruit, which will fly from her a fraction of a second later; and in the expression of her wide eyes and slightly parted lips, you can see her thoughts as she both anticipates the result of her deed and already sees it completed in her mind.
And there is in this sculpture simply the abrupt glimpse of action conceived and taken, perhaps if abstracted into that one fragment of time, a thing that held the good of its own movement and beauty.
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| Eris, Sarah Myers detail from below |
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| Eris with the Apple of Discord impressionistic detail of hand |
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| Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers sculpture from back |
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| Eris, Sarah Myers detail of face |
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| Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers Sculpture in terracotta |
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