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KAY CAIRNS

 

Oil on canvas

Please do not touch

 

Rectangle colour

boundaries unbounded

by a modern age.

Violet void

dark passage

to new world of sun.

 

I inject

my new world reading

onto your canvas

and wonder why

I spoil simplicity

with learned complexities,

why I cannot accept

colour, shape,

as sufficient in themselves.

 

I look for meaning,

find your rose hued borders

are not complete

but fade to rough-brushed edges

at the base,

that save us

from structure

from finality.

 

Perhaps a space

through which we enter

and become

sublime

serene

sublimated

by the simplicity

of yellow.

 

 

Note: based on a painting by Mark Rothko.

No. 9 (Dark over Light Earth/Violet and

Yellow in Rose) [Violet and Yellow on Rose] 1954