Monoprint and Reverse

Life drawing monoprint A0

on this day

On this day

I light this candle

For your lover

Your two sons

Your mother

Your sister

For their strength

Their memories

Their hearts to be whole

For you

Dear boy

With a twinkle in my eye

And a toothy grin

I drive

At knuckle biting speed

Down the highway

All windows down

Black dog on my stereo

And

Rosemary

On my dash

Anapanasati

Breath escapes

Involuntarily

Extensions are written

I breathe in

Deadlines are broken

I breathe out

Branches crash around me

I breathe in

A door is slammed

I breathe out

Flooring pulled from beneath me

I breathe in

Elaborate nightmares transcend

I breathe out

Hand to my chest

I breathe in

Head bowed

I breathe out.

Erasure

 What does erasure do?

It removes something.

What does it leave behind?

Something else.

Clint Burnham

Self portrait charcoal drawings. Exploring trace/erasure and memory. a1 size.

Collage

Found another way to use my prints- reduce, photocopy, tear and old newspaper clippings and you have a therapeutic process and outcome. Thanks Sonya!

Good Friday

Silently he sits

My coloured offerings upon his lap

I speak to him as an old friend

No olive branch in sight

Heart open

We speak of Persecution

Sabotage

Loss

Remorse

With the same bruises on our back

Same sunken eyes

We recount stonings

Speak of threads

the Unravelling

Both of our hands

Knuckles white

Gripped

Dirty

And tear stained

For what broke for you

On this day

I lay delicate blossoms

And for me

Its enough

To just sit

Still

Self Portrait

                              How confronting it is to sit, observe and be in that moment with yourself intimately.                         

When the very essence of you is being challenged.

I seemed to have spent the last month concentrating on Self Portraits.

I now love every line thats etched on my face.

Those lines are my stories and mine alone.

I have taken time and love in remembering and honouring every one of them.