9″ x 12″
Continuing (read: starting) the images for a forthcoming retranslation of Rilke’s cycle of poems “The Life of Mary”. A number of these will be showing up on the work-a-day in the next few months — results may range from pretty successful to laughably unsuccessful — as I try to enter a very challenging text with brown ink and gold leaf, materials I don’t understand. Will start by drawing. Here is me beating around the edges of “Rast auf der Flucht nach Ägypten” (Rest on the Flight to Egypt).
The small baby
in red
[unnoticed]
prays or sleeps.
probably both, plus the
tiny death of all the tight
circle thoughts only seconds
before inhabited
shhhhhhh
what color is this paper? it looks kindof ecruish…i love the old figure drawings by egon scheile on that yellowish paper.
it's ecru, I suppose. You might call it that.