Bell Poem No. 7
2020. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 10 in.
So yes: “bell poems”. When I started creating these canvases a couple months ago I wasn’t sure where they were going, and I’m still not, but the thought of them as bell poems has persisted. So now they have titles.
What do they have in common? They all start as big calligraphic gestures in black on white. Some then gain another color, and maybe some more white or black. All on 10 x 20-inch canvases – some horizontal, some vertical. This was the first:
Bell Poem No. 1 (Headlong)
2020. Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 20 in.
Beautiful and engaging pictures, Chris. Your intelligently written thoughts, expressed so very succinctly, add that other dimension to the work. Thank you. Mark (Australia)
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