A Terrible Beauty is Born

10 x 10, framed/matted with glass

Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, house paint, charcoal

Inspired by Easter 1916, William Butler Yeats, excerpt:

I have met them at close of day   

Coming with vivid faces

From counter or desk among grey   

Eighteenth-century houses.

I have passed with a nod of the head   

Or polite meaningless words,   

Or have lingered awhile and said   

Polite meaningless words,

And thought before I had done   

Of a mocking tale or a gibe   

To please a companion

Around the fire at the club,   

Being certain that they and I   

But lived where motley is worn:   

All changed, changed utterly:   

A terrible beauty is born.

Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware