This We Knew by Kevin Rolly

Mixed media by Kevin Rolly For Sale

  • Title: This We Knew

  • Artist: Kevin Rolly

  • Category: Mixed media

  • Medium: gunpowder, acrilic, graphite, oil pastel, coffee

  • Size (inches): 16x20

  • Year: 2023

  • Framed?: Unframed

  • Shipping from: United States

Price: $1000

Artwork description

Works in gunpowder. These are a new departure/experiment for me. I always wanted to find a way to include fire in my work and it found me. There is no one type of gunpowder. Each designation has its own voice when lit upon the panel. There is no controlling it and that is its beauty.

Detonated on panel and ready to hang.

“It was not like before
when the leaves turned over in their season
to days of ice
and men and women huddled around in their rituals
of dying days

Clocks and rivers ran
in their courses
as the ruddy fish
in their secret matings
swam swollen against them
to breathe deep
in the fecund waters

Then somewhere under the spheres
(on a Tuesday I think)
the elk ran left at the willow tree
when they always turned right

The ravens perched sleepless
upon the highest branch
and for the first time afraid

The scribe stops for a moment
and remembers starlings
and a knot somewhere
unties
and none knew this
save the eagles and the prophets

Something has begun
but this we knew”

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