Crumpled Brown Paper; 'like children at a game;

Crumpled Brown Paper 1

 oil on gesso panel  11" x 14"

Crumpled Brown Paper 3

 oil on gesso panel  6" x 8"

Children At A Game

Perhaps it is just as well,

what with the Terra firma

shifting as it does,

most unexpectedly, 

that we are without

the warning of a

dawn's early light 

leaking from a break at the milky horizon,

allowing our small preparations

for the terrible days.

How can we know, confronted

with the everlasting silence,

what to say?

Like small children at a game,

everyone pretends to have a scheme

to get home at the call,

"all-ee all-ee in free."

Mine is a near blind reach,

for any fugitive light,

drawing a path out of darkness.

Images left behind as hopefull markers,

like breadcrumbs scattered

through the forest.

from Hedging My Bets

by Dean Taylor Drewyer

Crumpled brown paper under a spotlight, perhaps not your usual subject. It's just paper some supplies came wrapped in, far superior to little styrofoam popcorns or bubble wrap. I was searching for a trigger to get the winters' painting started and saw the paper under a light and was blown away. I'm a week in and see no reason for escape - sharpening my senses to shadow and light; directional movement; dynamic space; warm and cool nuanced color. Fun and games and wonder. Enjoy!