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Vissual Essay on Walt Whitman's...
Thursday, April 9, 2009
One of my installations for my new exhibit at the W. Bonifas Arts center in Escanba, MI, is an installation on a beautiful fragment from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman.
It regards this following fragment:

"As God comes a loving bed-fellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty. "

It is such a beautiful view of God as a close good friend - I was truly moved...and as I read this, it already generated images in my mind and this is what I saw:








The wing is hand made. I built it on a metal structure/skeleton and added the feathers, gluing them one by one. The chair I found at a local antiques shop and the 3 baskets filled with white towels are the best part. Also on the floor are 2 pillows, one has imprinted one of my wing drawings and the second pillow has imprinted the above mentioned fragment from Leaves of Grass.
I really had a great time putting this installation together.


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