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An ignorance a Sunset | Emily Dickinson
17 August 2020, 7:32 PM
I completed a small copper plate etching from a plate given to me by Rhyl Beggs. It had a variety of random marks and scratches which I tried to incorporate into the design. The plate is now completed, and I've begun to explore how a colour sequence might work. You can view it here, on the Creative Spaces About page.
While busy etching, I haven't found the right match of print to poem. Tried a few and they didn't quite fit. So, in a google search I came across this: An ignorance a Sunset by Emily Dickinson.
I've never read any of her poetry before. She was a 19th century American poet. and from the few poems that I've now scanned, seems highly creative. Just wondering how others might interpret it?
An ignorance a Sunset
Confer upon the Eye —
Of Territory — Color —
Circumference — Decay —
Its Amber Revelation
Exhilirate — Debase —
Omnipotence’ inspection
Of Our inferior face —
And when the solemn features
Confirm — in Victory —
We start — as if detected
In Immortality —
An angel is everywhere
17 August 2020, 9:54 PM
A poem of impressionistic contrasts: day becoming night; ignorance becoming knowledge; colour becoming darkness. While under/over all the Divine examines humanity. Maybe both parties recoil with surprise with what they discover. There is much to read into this unfathomed depth of suggestion and possibility. The print you present David has much potential as an accompaniment to sections of the poem.
21 August 2020, 7:48 AM
This poem seems to allow a wide range of interpretation and David’s superb print enables a link with a beautiful tranquil setting.
25 August 2020, 11:56 AM
Most of the prints are for sale @ $50 each.
I've put up a sequence of 27 different prints which you can view here. Anyone in kiwiconnexion can comment on the individual images and state a line of the poem he or she feels matches the particular print. Feel free to comment on none, one or as many as you want. I
will hold an exhibition at church when we return to Sunday worship. Later on I will make a video of the sequence.
I've begun work on another Robert Frost poem, Mending Wall. I won't be making a sequence but printing a edition for the members of our printmaking group at Browne School of Art.
12 October 2020, 11:20 PM
The video is now completed
It's taken a while—for such a short poem—and so few prints needed to illustrate—but it's finally done. And what a set of discoveries on the way as I did the prints: other Dickinson poems, an extraordinary life.
No wonder Paul Simon wrote in the Simon and Garfunkel hit..."You read your Emily Dickinson and I my Robert Frost". Stellar writings, in which is revealed the inscape of the heart/mind.
Anyway, here is the link to the video.