Comments on: April Gornik

By: Kelley

Kelley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:33:14 +0000

Lori, thanks for visiting and commenting. But I want to make sure you understand that I'm not April, I'm just a fan of her work. If you want to contact April to express your appreciation directly, you should visit her website. You'll find many more gorgeous images there.

By: Lori Jamroz

Lori Jamroz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:26:40 +0000

I have been studying your wonderful art for only the past few weeks now, and I LOVE your individuality of not only your paintings and drawings, etc.; but of a caring and very interactive woman. I someday will own a piece of your “beauty” (art) and every time i “look” at it, I will remember all I have learned about you so far; that there ARE special, wonderful people out there that make this world a little bit brighter, calmer, and lovely thanks to your efforts. Keep up your wonderful(ness)!!! one of your many fans, Lori

By: rhbee1

rhbee1 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:20:02 +0000

THE SUNSHINES BLUE . . .
On the day outside my mind,
rides like wind flies and trains of inconsequence trade themselves for thoughts
as I wish for more than I can have or hold or even use in this world gone mad as a hatter,

In a world where anything can un happen, can re happen, can happen more or less with consequences and all the trimmings,
While we (you and I) still stay in a quandary, at a loss,
Up in the air like a coin star-crossed, our minds flipping, tripping at all the evil dripping
from the last bomb tossed.

By: Kelley

Kelley — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:09:29 +0000

I know that place where birds fly and the unknown still lies. And I think we’re always rearranging our own personal corner of the universe, don’t you?

By: rhbee1

rhbee1 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:05:04 +0000

I am reminded of this poem from some time ago:

TAXES . . .

They say death and taxes are the only two things you canât avoid.
Thereâs a finality there that is hard to ignore.
A sense of dying already let in the door.
But what if you want to deny this truth?
What if you wanted nothing, and needed less?
Would governments be
Satisfied without redress?
Somewhere out there on the edge, where the sky meets the earth, where
Birds fly and the unknown still lies like a sea serpent looking for dinner,
We look to find our salvation.
An eternal spring, a new life form that when wedded with ours will create an
Everlasting, always young, new humankind.
And I wonder, could we do that without changing, rearranging our current
Universe.
Or would this change like some domino exhibit collapse us all into
Some black hole that is worse than death and . . . taxes.

By: Kelley

Kelley — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:47:31 +0000

@ Barbara — I think the ability to capture that kind of light in paint is just astonishing. I have zero talent for visual art (less than zero, probably) and I just stand in awe of it.

@ Jennifer — Thanks for the whole poem, it’s lovely. To get one’s bearings, well, that’s the great quest, no?

By: Barbara Sanchez

Barbara Sanchez — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:35:06 +0000

Thanks for the view. The use of light is really something. I think that without that use of light there would be no meaningful form.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:53:28 +0000

It occurs to me that I did the poet and the poem (and the reader) an injustice by not including the whole poem. Itâs really not long at all. I left off the beginning:

Is it a new country
In another world or reality
Than Dayâs?
Or did I live there
Before Day was?
I awoke
To and ordinary morning with gray light
Reflected from the street.

But (I) remembered
The dark-blue night
Above, the tree line,
The open moor in moonlight,
The crest in shadow,
Remembered other dreams
Of the same mountain country:
Twice I stood on its summits,
I stayed by its remotest lake,
And followed the river
Towards its source.
The seasons have changed
And the light
And the weather
And the hour
But it is the same land.
And I begin to know the map
And to get my bearings.

by Dag Hammarskjold

By: duffy

duffy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:02:40 +0000

This is exactly what I love about the internet. Having people share the things that make them tick. And not just their reaction to someone’s art but the art itself. I, unfortunately, never heard of April Gornik until now. Now that I have I think I’m going to be very appreciative.

Thanks Kelley.

Duff

By: Kelley

Kelley — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:57:33 +0000

No need to apologize. The nice thing about the InterWeb is that there is enough room for all of us.

Lovely poetry, thanks very much indeed.

And yes to the idea of beauty and intuition and hope being tied together. I’ll be thinking more about that.