Jo Bertini
Embers in the Night Hawks’ Garden, 2023
oil on Belgian linen
127 x 132 cm, 129 x 135 cm (framed)
$16,000
I looked up and there it was among the green branches of the pitchpines- thick bird, a ruffle of fire trailing over the shoudlers and down the back- color of...
I looked up and there it was
among the green branches of the pitchpines-
thick bird,
a ruffle of fire trailing over the shoudlers and down the back-
color of copper, iron, bronze -
lighting up the dark branches of the pine.
What misery to be afraid of death,
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
When I made a little sound
it look at me, then it looked past me.
Then it rose, the wings enormous and opulent,
and, as I said, wreathed in fire. - 'I Looked Up' by Mary Oliver
among the green branches of the pitchpines-
thick bird,
a ruffle of fire trailing over the shoudlers and down the back-
color of copper, iron, bronze -
lighting up the dark branches of the pine.
What misery to be afraid of death,
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
When I made a little sound
it look at me, then it looked past me.
Then it rose, the wings enormous and opulent,
and, as I said, wreathed in fire. - 'I Looked Up' by Mary Oliver