Art | Ward Maxwell

Singing

Sight is instantaneous and hence illusory and easily confused. Ask any magician.
Hearing is visceral and moves through our body at a speed we can experience.

Donald, which chimera are you?

Oh lion, liar,
snake, oh goat
neither reptile, mammal,
nor best of all time.

You gotta be lucky to be in love

You gotta be lucky to be in love.
Bet on the hot hand, roll the dice,
play hard to be twice as nice.
Cut a two, make it hearts,
you gotta make the bet if you want the part;
you gotta be lucky to be in love.

Peacock Python Monkey King

a fable
Python lay coiled on a warm flat rock admiring his beautiful scales, how they shimmered in the sun, and constantly shifted in colour. They made him look fluid, like he was a glittering stream threading his way through the jungle. Python was so pleased with himself that he rolled in great coils that flipped about as he stared at every inch of his gorgeous body.
Python was not the only one admiring Python’s scales.

windows

There is no worse fate than being captive in a windowless room. If the room is small, all the worse. It must be said within our core being, windows promise escape.

Artwork

All of the pieces are scratched, some are additionally coloured, using photos I have taken. The photographs are printed on photographic paper, they are not digital. The technique is entirely analogue; I have not used Photoshop or any other image editing software. Size is consistently 6×4″.

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