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Below are Caroline's new
paintings which she did in China earlier this year
The poetry 'This
is the proposition
[A trip with Caroline Hands' China paintings, 2008]' is by
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1.
When they say let's go for a walk
they mean Let's dance,
only they mean Let's make up new dance
before we even think about it,
let's jump through mist and fire
and so proceed there
where this kind of walk takes us.
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2
A
kite is not a kite,
I'm a kite,
you're a kite,
the great bouquets where they grow
are kites, the buildings any moment now
will take off into the blue,
you're a kite,
I'm a kite,
kites are mere cuttlefish.
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I'm a hundred and six, how old are you?
I'm two years and three months and six days
and I arrived here flying with ease.
I am you and you are a flying flip-flop,
I am you and you are snowdrops frying in whispers,
doves are laying bright eggs deep
into the floating harvest, no-one knows
or cares
where we're going, but we do know
secretly.
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Let it flow
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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About a place
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm |
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On the move old and new
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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Our footprint
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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Peace talks
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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She flew through the air
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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The land our place
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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Two steps forward one step back
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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Where will that kite go
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm |
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Woodland walks
oil on canvas 248cm x 168cm
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4
Now that we have
learned to swim in air,
now that fish are breeding with doves
and giving birth to us all over again
so that we can receive the wink of a whale
and send our secrets off on kites
knowing they'll be found
in moonlight.
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5
Lamps are the fruit
of the snow mountains,
corn stalks are the lamps of the snow mountains,
blue auras are the birds of the snow mountains,
this way to the dark mountains,
the dark angel will accompany us
and the kestrels
pretending to be doves.
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6
Here come I
from the ship in the
sky
and here come I
awake in a cloud
and here my friend
says here come I
awake at last
and flying.
Let's tangle,
for
in a tangle
always there is prayer
lighting us here.
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Flags of unity
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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What next
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Red
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Midnight hour
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Of
celebration
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm
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We're curious
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Paintings which Caroline did in China last year |
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Yawhackwoo!
Hello?
Yawhackerwoo!
Lovely day.
Wockerwhackerwoowoo!
I saw you flying through the mist
and arrive here plonk and whack.
Right!
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O
woo!
And look at you
and woo me too
and who is this
and what is orange and is not a fish?
I tell you, when this hill
turns
and we all fall
off.
Kiss-kiss,
swim-swim.
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Wichita!
Starachit!
Wichita Wichita!
Staraaachit!
O dove
where sky that is sea
meets earth that is squall.
I
know, says the dove,
we all do know.
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Journey 1
oil on canvas 165cm x 150cm |
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Dancing in the
Moonlight
oil on canvas 165cm x 150cm |
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Journey 2
oil on canvas 165cm x 150cm
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Up with the lotus
oil on canvas 165cm x 150cm |
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Followings Dreams
oil on canvas 165cm x 150cm |
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Many sides of the
coin
oil on canvas 165cm x 150cm |
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Detail from many sides
of the coin |
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Detail from many sides
of the coin |
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At the Opera 1
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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At the Opera 2
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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At the Opera 3
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm
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At the Opera 4
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm
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Bamboo 1
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Bamboo 2
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Leaves
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Lotus Land
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Water Flows 1
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Water Flows 2
oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm |
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Green Lake Park, Kunming, China
oil on
canvas 142cm x 106cm
(sold) |
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Breaking Out
oil on canvas 142cm x 106cm |
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Looking Through
oil on canvas 142cm x 106cm |
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10
Go
on, mistake us for angels.
But we are, we are!
With our shapes, our clumsy leaps?
O yes, angels, O yes!
Don't want to be an angel, I'm fine
leaping about being me.
Me too, but I was, do you know,
created two minutes ago out of angel dust.
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O
whispering gods of sky, well, flight and mound,
grant us a quiet night and a peaceful end.
Not yet, not yet!
For so we came and will return to earth,
more seeds to sew, more eloquence, more birth.
Not yet!
This our delight of cluster and of swoon
must soon give way to what we do not own,
we are but soul-stuff in this form on loan.
Not yet! |
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