. mutable .

2007

~24" x 30" Matted - $425
~28.5" x 35.5" Framed - $600
Limited edition of 25

About this work...

This work is autobiographical, one self-portrait. The poem coincides with one of my childhood spring rituals. Living through the cold Midwest winters, I would take the first opportunity of Spring to go to the levee and feel the freedom in the open expanses, the freedom of the warmth minus all the coats and other clothing, and the freedom of the solitude. There I would sit in the sun, in my solitude, facing toward the river to the south in a yearly ritual of rebirth and reconnection to nature, to myself.


. mutable .

i ran on the endless levee
that rose to the dawn
higher to the sun than anything

god found me there, present
with my eyes closed
smiling, weeping, thinking

i saw beyond the great distance
yet my feet grew roots
stretching me to forever