Empty Mirror

a literary magazine

  • About
    • About Empty Mirror
    • Get in Touch
    • Support EM
    • Colophon
  • Submit
  • Contributors
  • Essays
  • On Literature
  • Poetry
  • Reviews
  • Art
  • Interviews
  • Beat
    • Beat Generation
    • Ted Joans Lives!
  • +
    • Fiction
    • Music & Film
    • News
    • On Writing
    • Book Collecting

Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

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 night an abyss

a deep ocean of swirling blue
a hand grasping faith
absentminded fulfillment
of a hunger for truth

2.

Wings unfold through lines
jotted down roses
dreams of fires blazing
their red offers no salvation

you have fallen, as
one wing couldn’t carry
the weight of your desire
touched by a sun

you did turn page after page
and read each day out loud
yet the pages looked alike
mirroring the sky effortlessly

3.

Dozing off on a soft pillow
your desire for self-actualization
became a hesitant pronunciation
of levitation you observed

colors blend in a haze
like a field of flowers
as you drive by at 120 mph
speed seems indifferent to your

immobility, in truth
everything is at a standstill
how many colors can you use
how much needs to be colored

4.

Icarus rises with great strength
tempting all to dream of flight
he must have been so alone
close to the sun

his blackened thoughts
cows turned loose after winter
just a thought uncovered in paint
strokes of the brush merge into one

surface, the haptic has touched upon
a mind that drifted off
a farewell to hot summer days
and blazing pink skies

Icarus/Journey of the Soul, 170 x 90 cm, acrylics & oils on canvas, 2017. Studio - Joost de Jonge
Icarus/Journey of the Soul, 170 x 90 cm, acrylics & oils on canvas, 2017. Studio
Icarus Improvisation, 110 x 80 cm, acrylics & oils on canvas, 2017. Studio, Joost de Jonge
Icarus Improvisation, 110 x 80 cm, acrylics & oils on canvas, 2017. Studio
Share on TwitterShare on Facebook

Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge is a widely exhibited Dutch artist with work in a wide range of international collections. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and ’s-Hertogenbosch, and at the Universitat de Barcelona. He earned his BFA in painting with honors at the School of the Arts in Utrecht, followed by an artist residency at the Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth in Callosa d’en Sarrià, Spain.

In 2008 he began publishing catalogues of his work. In 2011 he initiated the Ekphrasis Project with his book The Ekphrasis Project: Oceanen van Kleur, inviting art critics, art historians, and poets to respond to his paintings with original writings. In 2014 the series became an online publication, and in 2015 he produced his first e-book with its own domain at paintedpoetry.org: Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics—an ekphrastic notion. The collaborative project flourished with contributions from across Europe as well as from important American poets and writers.

His photos and poems have been featured in Dutch magazines, In 2014 the art critic and curator Peter Frank interviewed him for a YouTube video titled “Joost de Jonge: A Life of Art,” directed by Juri Koll and produced by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.

Author: Joost de Jonge Tags: ekphrastic poetry, painting Category: Visual Art and Visual Poetry August 25, 2017

You might also like:

The Rift in Tiime (detail) - Rodica Miller
The Rift in Time: Paintings by Rodica Miller
Barry Johnson - Insomnia (detail)
New paintings by Barry Johnson
Sleeping on Earth's Bed (detail) - Cristina Querrer
Silvery Twines, Embracing: Eight Paintings by Cristina Querrer
Marshall Blevins
The South as a Home as an Animal

Comments

  1. Sam Silva says

    August 28, 2017 at 9:03 am

    i like the art

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I accept the Privacy Policy

 

DONATE TO BLACK LIVES MATTER

BLACK LIVES MATTER

The EM newsletter

Receive fresh poetry, reviews, essays, art, and literary news every Wednesday!


Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

Subscribe Submissions Support

Recent features

  • My Father’s Map
  • On Waiting
  • Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994
  • Visual poems from 23 Bodhisattvas by Chris Stephenson
  • Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida
  • Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale
  • “Art has side effects,” I said.

Books

Biblio
© 2000–2023 D. Enck / Empty Mirror.
Copyright of all content remains with its authors.
Privacy Policy · Privacy Tools · FTC disclosures