Great install photos of my commissioned #painting ‘The Typesetter’s Song.’ It’s so gratifying to see it finally up on the wall and in the place it was made for.

#art #contemporaryart #abstractart #abstractpainting #contemporarypainting #textart #colorfieldpainting #colorfield #Whitman #LeavesOfGrass #SongOfMyself #RomeBros #commission

If there are any Whitmaniacs out there, I'm going to be reading in a "Song of Myself" marathon hosted by the Walt Whitman Initiative, Sunday 4 June 2023. Details on the site. (If you click to the YouTube page there's a list of readers and sections.) #WaltWhitman #SongofMyself

https://waltwhitmaninitiative.org/

These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.

-- from #SongOfMyself by #WaltWhitman

https://pdx.social/@VisualStuart/109668429078615661

#SongOfMyself by #WaltWhitman​

The beginning: https://pdx.social/@VisualStuart/109520873763564399​​

4.1
Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
[...]

15/

The individual #triptych panels of
"The Typesetter's Song"

#Whitman's lifelong practice of revision and reworking resonated with my #process of excerpted #text defining the surface structure & #colorfield, which resonate through the layers of #painting changes. It's safe to say that I might've continued to #paint if it didn't ship.

#art #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractart #AbstractPainting #textart #colorfieldpaninting #LeavesOfGrass #SongOfMyself #book #bookmaker #printer

The focus of my #studio practice for nearly 6 months: a commission based on #Whitman's #LeavesOfGrass. The research into the source #text brought a new understanding to his approach to writing as a #printer and object (#book)maker.

"The Typesetter's Song"
125" x 60" (overall, 3 panels)
Oil/ paintstick, wax, and alkyd on aluminum composite panel.

#art #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractart #AbstractPainting #textart #colorfield #colorfieldpaninting #SongOfMyself #triptych

#SongOfMyself by #WaltWhitman​

The beginning: https://pdx.social/@VisualStuart/109520873763564399​

3.1
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

10/

#SongOfMyself by #WaltWhitman

The beginning: https://pdx.social/@VisualStuart/109520873763564399

2.1
Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

4/

#SongOfMyself by #WaltWhitman

1.1
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

1/

Free at last! thank God Almighty, free at last. As the sunbeam from door to desk invites, & #Whitman wrote:
"Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"
#SongOfMyself XXIV https://poets.org/poem/song-myself-xxiv

Free at last! thank God Almighty. As the sunbeam from door to desk invites, and #Whitman wrote:
"Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
#SongOfMyself XXIV
https://poets.org/poem/song-myself-xxiv

Unexpected encounter with an old friend. #NateDiMeo of #TheMemoryPalace podcast with a beautiful reading of #WaltWhitman's #SongOfMyself.

Recorded in November 2016.
https://pca.st/rzUn

#SHELF
A masterclass in #poetry – #RufoQuintavalle ‘s re-imagining of #Whitman ‘s #songofmyself publishec by @saggingmeniscus 👇
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com
My #portuguese #translation of this magnificent #poet are published by #Rascunho 👇
https://rascunho.com.br/ficcao-e-poesia/poemas-de-rufo-quintavalle/
#poetry #poesia #poem #poema #book

Quintavalle

#HighMuseum #Rodin #Atlanta #SongOfMyself #TheThinker
Rodin exhibit at High showed me Modernism. I hear Whitman's poetry in the works, especially the bronzes. Stefan Zweig visited Auguste Rodin in 1904.
“His eyes, which at table had been amiably inattentive, now flashed with strange lights, and he seemed to have grown larger and younger. He worked, worked, worked, with the entire passion and force of his heavy body;”— The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” - Walt Whitman naturally.

Firstly to mark an exciting IRL moment, baby!!!

Them two because there is NEVER a bad time for Whitman!

#WaltWhitman #SongOfMyself