Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2002SYR05
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Poem Inspiration Location
City Bird Perches
poster information
Description
City bird perches
on Columbus' tricorn hat
Crow's nest, horizon
When I write my poetry, I go for the image, always the snap shot or the photograph, the one thing, that will force the reality of what I'm seeing into words.
Driving through downtown, and seeing Columbus with a bird on his had, I felt I had the perfect image. Since I used to work on Montgomery Street, at the Metropolitan School of the Arts, I often spent time at Columbus Circle.
To me, Columbus Circle is the center of the arts community, with the Civic Center, the museums, the old Metropolitan School of the Arts, and the library emanating from that center. And I like the symbolism of Columbus: the patrons of the arts, the ones who go to arts projects downtown, seeing horizons in the arts.
I really love the architecture of some of the buildings downtown. The Niagara Mohawk building—I think that's gorgeous. And the architecture of the courthouse—that's what really drew me to do the Columbus Circle piece. I like how it has so much line to it, so much detail.
I'm really pleased with the painting. But actually it started off almost as a mistake.
First I wanted to do a line drawing, and once I had the lines down, I was going to have really thin layers of watercolor, so the lines still come through. But I ended up doing it very opaquely, and I found I liked that effect.