Thursday, August 18, 2016

Monday, August 8, 2016

lakes of flowers seas of flowers

 artwork by Josephine Wang © 2016. 29" x 29"






















Tell Me Why This Hurry  —Julia Hartwig

The lindens are blossoming the lindens have lost their blossoms
and this flowery procession moves without any restraint
Where are you hurrying lilies of the valley jasmines
petunias lilacs irises roses and peonies
Mondays and Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays
nasturtiums and gladioli zinnias and lobelias
yarrow dill goldenrod and grasses
flowery Mays and Junes and Julys and Augusts
lakes of flowers seas of flowers meadows
holy fires of fern one-day grails
Tell me why this hurry where are you rushing
in a cherry blizzard a deluge of greenness
all with the wind racing in one direction only
crowns proud yesterday today fallen into sand
eternal desires passions mistresses of destruction 

Saturday, July 30, 2016

The Glory in the Flower

artwork by Josephine Wang © 2016. 29"x 29"






















What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

Thursday, July 21, 2016

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

artwork by Josephine Wang © 2016. 29"x 29"





















A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. — John Keats

Friday, October 30, 2015

To Autumn — John Keats

















  
















artworks by Josephine Wang © 2013


















Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

…………………
— To Autumn, John Keats

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Season of Sweetness

artwork by Josephine Wang © 2012
artwork by Josephine Wang © 2012

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Rends-moi... I·II

rends-moi la différence
entre le soleil et la pluie
ma vaste solitude
où  je pouvais courir
rends-moi le ciel
les heures les années
une fenêtre
— Silvia Baron Supervielle
artwork by Josephine Wang © 2015

























 


Give me back the difference
between sun and rain
my vast solitude
in which I could run about
give me back the sky
the hours the years
a window
— Silvia Baron Supervielle
artwork by Josephine Wang © 2015