Art, Collage

Iphigenia Series

Shelly

Iphigenia 1 of 10
Now I am confounded in all things.

Iphigenia 2 of 10
What things fit so perfectly inside this moment?

Iphigenia 3 of 10
These stately ships over the see
Will live in memory.

Iphigenia 4 of 10
Listen to me, listen.
You have dared a fearful thing.

Iphigenia 5 of 10
With what gladness
Terrible enough
to break my heart?

Iphigenia 6 of 10
Wishes
They stand close
to the brink of grief.

Iphigenia 7 of 10
Well, what is that star
That moves across the sky?

Iphigenia 8 of 10
These, our ships —
With their
Mother
wings

Iphigenia 9 of 10
Is not this sorrow
My grave
and my monument?

Iphigenia 10 of 10
My spirit.
facing the light
And alive.

All of these are about 4 1/2 x 6 inches.

Art, Photography

Working

Shelly

Ready to start working. I think.

I’ve been spending my mini-staycation trying to get some collage work done. I have not been very productive, but I haven’t been totally useless, either. It’s just slow going.

Somewhere in there I got distracted reading Euripides. I don’t even know how that happens?! So the little series I’ve been working on all have text taken from him, mostly from Iphigenia in Aulis. If you’ve never read it, I recommend at least looking at Clytemnestra’s bits about her abduction by Agamemnon and on evilness of war. Beautiful and heart-breaking.