Portrait of Izaiah

Izaiah wanted to be an animator. He said, “animation was one of those things I was really interested in since I was little but it felt like I could never actually accomplish it.” Then, three or four years prior to this interview, he realized it was something he was interested in enough that he was willing to do it no matter how hard it was.

“There are a lot of things hard about art,” said Izaiah. He was never satisfied with his work, however he enjoyed the satisfaction of conquering struggles and getting techniques down. Izaiah enjoyed the gratificationion of overcoming all the difficulties.

Izaiah wanted to explore storytelling through a variety of different means. The most satisfying thing for him was storytelling, no matter what the medium.

Image Credits: Bat-Ami Gordin ©2017 all rights reserved. Credit if you use it, please.

disembodied spheres

Abstract 02 (From the Musee d Orsay series) by Walter W Smith

disembodied spheres, contiguous to contradictory
aspects of reality ― inviolable trans-empirical congeners.

abstractly marginal concepts run swiftly in
dysfunctional Rodentia  brains silently breaking moonlight.

self-causation. incantation. ordination. reassertion

incandescent power. scintillating siren speaks apostolically.
barrel-jammed full of exo-bizzare causal continuity.

extrasensory existentialist momentary causality
innervates gaudy uniqueness that knows no bounds.

encapsulation. detonation. postulation. misdirection.

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Today’s prompt, by

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Sheila Moore was to write a poem about how the art of Walter W Smith speaks to Us.

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Poetics – Awareness of the Experience

Deep into Art

Angelina Jolie as seen by Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci's Leda

Begin with a wash of black
for all is dark
when not exposed to light.

Deceive the stupid multitudes
like Pharisees and friars
who make employment
of delusions
and false miracles;

who suffer from their own opinions:
the greatest of all deceptions.

Confusion
round and about
the universe:

Mist mingles with Air.
Water flows turbid,
mixes with Soil and Dust.
Though each with each,
Fire remains on its own.

East rushes Westward.
South to the North.

With great noise,
trembling with fury
the artist must express until
painting becomes poetry
that is seen; never heard.

And poetry heard; not seen
is written from painting.

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This was written and posted for:

 dversepoets Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft –

Prose to Poetry by Claudia where we were supposed to select a piece of poetic prose, reformat it to look like a poem, rework it to meet your standards for poetry.

Instead of choosing one text, I found some quotes by Leonard da Vinci and melded them into a poem:

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
• The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
• Of Water, which flows turbid and mixed with Soil and Dust; and of Mist, which is mixed with the Air; and of Fire which is mixed with its own, and each with each.”
• Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees— that is to say, friars.
• The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
• A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
• The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Photo credit: Freaking News  Photoshop contest – Leonardo da Vinci pictures,  directions to artists were:

In this contest you are asked to show how paintings and inventions by Leonardo Da Vinci would look if he created them these days. Show his modernized work created simply for art, or for commercial purposes (advertising, political campaigns, etc.)