Arc of Time ... for Mark (anahata.c) by auntietk
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Description
Arc of Time
A hundred years
Before I was born
A woman
I know only from
Family history
Passed away
Her loved ones
Must have wept
When she was gone
Love shown
In the lines
Of a journal
The laying out
Of minutes
And hours
A revelation
Of character
Intimacy lives
In the details
Sometimes
I can picture
A different past
Glimmers of
Possibility
But realization is
Healing
Rather than
Foundation
Carefree days
A moment
Of authenticity
Caught forever
Consciousness
Creates space
For that truth
To become
Daily reality
We are our own
Authors
Our own
Stories
Each one
A gift
To the arc
Of time
Color
And passion
The stillness
Of waiting
Connection
Across unimaginable
Distance
Across time
These things
Inform our existence
And the circle
Is complete
..........
Many thanks to Mark (anahata.c) for allowing me to use his art as a background for this piece. You can see his original HERE
With the exception of the kanji characters, the handwriting brushes were made by me from scanned copies of old family documents. What a rewarding experience it was to create brushes with such personal meaning! It adds a depth for me that wouldn't have been there if I'd used brushes from the public domain.
I wrote the poem in response to the image, btw, not the other way around.
Comments (36)
Faemike55
Very beautiful words and image and so true!
beachzz
sighs in wonder omg, Tara, this is stunningly beautiful, both words and what you've done with the image. Your use of Mark's piece and the addition of those magic brushes turned this into something very, very special. Every words speaks to me, and I see something new every time I look at your art. wow
Chipka
This is stunning! It's particularly touching in that I've just learned that the paternal side of my family tree can be traced back to Wales (in terms of my family name) and to Gabon, to the Fang tribe that lives there now! Seeing this just brought a lot of stuff home in terms of history, family, and the strange complexity of human lineages! I love the blending of elements here, the writing, the photograph, the whole thing. It's a beautiful blend of original pieces and brushes and it's as superb as anything I've seen. Fantastic work. I love it!
junge1
Beautifully done Tara!
helanker
Tara , This is a really stunner. So touching and wonderful and of cause it was the other way around. I saw it at once :-) Beautiful Image and just as beautiful words. Bravo my dear.
lyron
Wonderful work!!!
durleybeachbum
Overwhelming! The words, images, Marks colours, they all perfectly align to make a stupendous experience. I can only begin to imagine how you made the handwriting brushes! You saying you wrote in response to the image sent me off in mid-comment to search for a book I'd forgotten I had (and can't find!) which is of poems in respone to paintings, and paintings in response to poems. I shan't rest now till I find it, you know how it is!
Meisiekind
Oh Tara - magnificent work my friend! The image and words just melt together as one! Extreme creativity and nostalgy in these beautiful image and prose! Excellent!!! (Ek mis jou ook baie! Dankie vir die Yahoo boodskap. Ek hoop ons kan gou weer praat! Ek het jou lief!)
PD154
Very well done indeed.
petercp
Great work Tara! A real stunner.
Valentin
Fabulous idea and excellent full sensibility work !
anahata.c
Tara, I woke up and noticed an ebot with my name on it...I thought I was just tired...then I saw it was this. It is truly beautiful. Not because of my art, but because of what you did with it. It's truly beautiful. You followed the contours of my colors as if they were made for your memory and vision. You placed your images into it with that kind of intuition that feels 'just right'. And you produced a real snapshot of deep memory, that reaches beyond any one of us to 'all' of us. The letters make beautiful art flowing across the page, and anyone seeing them knows those images, knows what they evoke, the past lives they evoke. Even the child's dress has lines that look like letters, and your photographs harmonize so nicely with the image. It's as if my image were made with this in mind, and that's an honor. And the kanji fits because, in Oriental paintings, the poems were painted like weeping willows, like falling leaves; and your kanji feels like that here; the drifting leaves of memory and life. A perfect 'signature'... Your poem evokes that memory beneath our consciousness; of being connected to souls we never knew, but whose artifacts transport us back generations, those "moment(s) of authenticity caught forever...a gift to the arc of time". Even a letter can evoke that—and the letter here does. Your language, as always, is in seeds & small fruits, your lines touch us like quiet caresses from old ancestors, and, as in all your poetry, they move like memory itself, towards union. And your brushes, made from actual fragments of your ancestral past, complete the circle. This is beautiful, and you couldn't have used my little PS piece more intuitively. Thank you. I wasn't going online at all today (I need to rest), but seeing this was wonderful balm. Many thanks Tara. It's a truly touching vision...
awjay
nice work
sandra46
precious composition!
MrsRatbag
Very beautiful work!
lucindawind
ohh this is gorgeous !
ShadowsNTime
Magnificent work Tara, love the image, love the words too! You write just like your photos, by that I mean you paint some wonderful images with words...Bravo!
BessieB
Amazing art work and words Tara, wonderful!
busi2ness
I can relate to so many things in the image and those brushes are stunning!
bmac62
What a wonderful collection of thoughtful comments above. Your poem flows through time in the same way that the colors ebb and flow about the "brushes" you've created from family photos and written documents. The red about the shoulders of the lady enfold her like a warm shawl. This is a very inspirational piece. Last night I couldn't write a word...today, all the pieces fell together:) Makes me think of my own family tree...and the personalities hidden behind all those two dimensional names.
jocko500
a wonderful image and poem
orig_buggy
wowwww....what a tribute!!! This is just awesome!!
anaber
Fascinating is what i see: your image and your words...Both unify perfectely reaching the true and doing the circle.Beautiful all around and so magnificent tribute and dedication for Mark: A wonderful friend of all of us!Bravo.
hipps13
beautiful work, Tara May warm hugs that truly do smile Thank you, Linda Kaye
npauling
A lovely work with so much feeling. Your poem tells a lovely story.
Artlan59
Beautifully done. Love the melding of the images.
costapanos
Tara-What a beautiful composition and image. It has evoked many memories of my own family history. Thank you for sharing this!
Merrylee
A lovely work of art....
flora-crassella
fantastic work!
alwaysonmymind
This picture exhales a breeze of a thousand words, attempting to bridge oceans of time: they are empty shells however, as nothing subsists but sound, the meaning lost to those, lost in myst, on either shore.