(Leaf 135) – Art Inspired
This poem is another attempt to
synthesise my fascination for the paintings of Jackson Pollock (see Leaf 134).
There has been a lot of speculation about what first sparked Pollock’s creative
“breakthrough” and his subsequent pursuit of his famous drip paintings – was it
simply accidental, staring down at his paint spattered studio floor, or a more
carefully considered painterly synthesis of Navajo artistic designs and Buddhist
sand mandala techniques, or something else entirely?
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| Jackson Pollock - Summertime: Number 9A (1948) Tate Modern |
Brush tipped,
a linear mandala
falls.
