Of Hammered Gold

9 x 11

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

Black frame, white mat, glass

From Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (excerpt)

Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware