Van Gogh Reproduction - winter 2011

Prints from Spring of 2011

 

3 color wood reduction-block print, based on photo I took in a monastery in Besalu, Spain

poem and image I printed in memory of my grandmother Mari Fertig

Bachan

1996

Wisteria hangs off the roof of your house on Keonkrest Drive.

In the garden, overgrown with reeds, we pick persimmons and pink camellias.

After school, we sit, drenched in sunlight, on tatami mats that smell of straw,

and play games without names.

I crawl through your loom, as if it were a jungle gym woven by spiders.

 Later, waiting for Mom and Dad to pick me up,

I listen to you spin stories about the organ-grinders monkey,

and drift into sleep.

2004

You don’t live there anymore:

strokes have robbed you of that.

You forget what decade we are in, but you never forget my name.

I visit you every week after school, and wheel you out to the patio.

You tell me, this is the purest form of happiness.

Drawings for my figure drawing course Winter 2011

These are images for a figure drawing course I took, they are rendered in charcoal, conte crayon, ink wash, and water color.

we spent a section of the course focusing on the figure and the skeleton

self-portrait, white charcoal on black paper

ink wash and water color