By deevaa
Date: 7 February 2001

I feel myself. Vivid.

The Valley of Fire - After

16" x 20"
Mixed media on canvas.

I feel myself. Vivid.

It is me.

I am these vivid splashes of colour, I am this canvas.

It's who I want to be.

Maybe.

Or maybe it is some far away stranger that I want to be like.

As I paint, I notice how she seems to be glowing, she leans into the desert sky, pale skin touched with warm earth. Tones of the desert. And I wonder if she is feeling these vivid colour splashes, I wonder if she feels me as I illuminate her skin, I wonder if she feels me against the sky.

I drift away into my work and I am there, perfect pale skin, flushed only by the afterglow of her lovers hands. Tones of the desert.

I lean into the desert sky with her. We are one. Now we are many. Vivid.