Fear/New Painting~2004

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Fear....Afraid, yes, you are certainly afraid,
You are trembling and frozen in fear.
It's in your heart and mind you were made,
From beginning to end it will be here.
It will come in many shapes and sizes,
It could become a translucent shadow.
Alone and in dark it terrorizes,
Waking up demons you did not even know.
To fear, nature elegantly designed,
Terrible and brilliant it's marvelous.
Coming from the recession of your mind.
Thinking it weak, we are superstitious.
Only, it will keep us out of harms way,
Keeping us safe, atleast for one more day

Silke, in addition to your painting you have a perfect sonnet, one which is perfectly illustrative and reflective of the illustration; it reminds me of the poems which accompany Vivaldi's Four Seasons (I think they are sonnets too, if memory serves). So I first must praise your sonnet!

The painting is really haunting, and captures the idea of fear very well. The eyes of the figure portray fear in all its complexity, on many levels. One cannot help but be menaced by the dark, entering figure in the doorway; his raised hand is somehow terrifying and threatening of violence, certainly of control and dominance.

Your use of color is very sophisticated and layered; you use color in a psychologically suggestive manner, portraying the complexity and multiplicity of the figure's relationship with fear, and with the dark and entering stranger in the doorway. Your imagery is powerful and effective, provocative of thought and emotion, and also, in my case, memory.

The addition of your exquisitely-formed sonnet creates a beautiful multi-dimensional effect. You know how in clothing stores one sometimes finds oneself between mirrors, and there are seemingly endless images, receding off into an apparent infinity? This is the effect, the multiplicity of reflection which is achieved by the synergy of word and image.

This is by far my favorite of your word and image combinations, because of its haunting--actually, disturbing--multiplicity.

I hope you use this sonnet and image in a book, Silke; it's a fantastic synergy, which really means something to anyone who has ever known fear.

I love you, and I am proud of you. You are an important artist to be taken seriously. I offer my sincere respect and admiration on this work. I was delightfully surprised to find it here.

"Perfect love casts out fear."

AMOR VINCIT OMNIA

Sonnet - yes! Painting - yes! But the music also. Yes the music!

Adoration in large measure.

hey hey

DEDICATION FOR SILKE
(This poem remains untitled until she gives this a name)

I am too afraid to respond
Knowing of what you've faced
What, again...
You will have to overcome

To know that I, too
Was once in your place
Does not make it easier
In knowing the right words to say

My heart aches
And bleeds for you so
I know that you can imagine
No doubts that you know

I wish that there was more
That I could possibly do
To erase those demons
By which you have been so morally abused

To take away your pain
To keep you, oh so, safe
I feel so helpless that I can not
Put an end to your unwarranted shame

You deserve so much better than this
To live out your life in precious moments
You deserve to have your every wish
Not to feel so failed to the bitter end

I can not be there for you now
But, know that my heart embraces you
Always, forever, wipes your silent tears away
Somehow

You may not realize this
Or believe it's true
But the strongest person I will ever know
Will always be.....

YOU!

Copyright@2004/Aiyana


This dedication was written, just, for you, my Goddess of Heart.
I would feel honored if you would give this poem a name, a title to make it one of your own.
I miss you, and I wish you all the best.
Please get better!
Please fight!
And please, try your best to get through all of this.
You are not alone, so many people love you!
We will fight for you, and we will stand by you, and help you through this.
Fight, my dear Angel. Fight!

Love,
Lauren