Still Life
What really sorts my mind is meditation. I love putting things away and taking them out again. Still lifes are about choices. They’re mental constructs - wanderlust worlds of abundance with lots of cultural curiosity, where farm fresh can frolic with other people’s nostalgia. They get preachy about the good life, but are usually decorative. Still lifes are reflections of our better selves, but they’re more organized and don’t have to be accurate. I think that’s one reason why people like them, though they may not be aware of it: still lifes become private altars.
Composition
This is where things come together
Light, culture, health and garden
Proud things brought to purpose
Gravity and growth - in this space
Meaning gets rearranged for effect
Especially what’s taken for granted
And someone else takes it home
Sill Life
Cleaning her bread drawer to my early
Amazement, grandma was want to say
Leave anything alone long enough and
It will walk, my still lifes aren’t so still
There’s ritual order, animism following
Intuitive necessity, there’s power put-
Back where it belongs in the cosmos
With Proud things placed in perspective
So the stillness comes from looking
Still lifes are about choices. They’re mental constructs - wanderlust worlds of abundance with lots of cultural curiosity, where farm fresh can frolic with other people’s nostalgia.
