3/30/2004

They resemble Rodin's
Gates of Hell
with desperate souls
struggling to escape
a dark bronze surface
in which they
are forever imbedded
but these are paintings
and
while one large canvas
has a hole
in the middle
allowing the figure
in the painting
to move
from one side
of the canvas
to the other
in an effort
to escape the surface
others bulge
with the silhouettes
of figures
about to
burst the confines
of the medium
the artist has used
for bringing them
into being
which will happen
as soon as
some technical problems
are resolved
heightening the chemistry
between creation
and
a life of one's own.