Son of Daedalus 1. I await your stirring of emotion in the needle bushes beside the tree my path like a burning daemon touches no ground to honor your reality is like darkness the … [Read more...]
Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest
Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not … [Read more...]
A Third Scroll of Malachite: A Painting by Joost de Jonge and Poem by Norman Dubie
A Third Scroll of Malachite —circa 800 AD The magus as a small boy in Egypt in his faded linens thought that the torchlight reflected in the harbor was a simple exchange of sleeping gulls over … [Read more...]
Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge
daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the … [Read more...]
Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge
Artist's statement: I proclaim the freedom of abstract art to be self-referential. To be a joyous play of form and color, rhythm is at the heart of my compositions, the pulse which is hidden there, … [Read more...]