a collaboration of strangers
this is the finished collage of my sketches of gerard manley hopkins' poem "pied beauty". i looked high and low for the right background until i found this stretched photo canvas at a second-hand store.
it truly looked like "landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough" so i bought it for a mere $6.
i couldn't help but wonder what the story was behind it. the back says "logan yliniemi, dec. 14, 2015 catlins, new zealand"...who did he give it to? how did it end up at resale?
perhaps i will never know the history behind this unlikely collaboration of a stranger's photography, my sketching, and the words of a long-departed poet. but i offer it for your enjoyment, just the same. fitting, as it is as pied and varied as the poem itself.
it truly looked like "landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough" so i bought it for a mere $6.
i couldn't help but wonder what the story was behind it. the back says "logan yliniemi, dec. 14, 2015 catlins, new zealand"...who did he give it to? how did it end up at resale?
perhaps i will never know the history behind this unlikely collaboration of a stranger's photography, my sketching, and the words of a long-departed poet. but i offer it for your enjoyment, just the same. fitting, as it is as pied and varied as the poem itself.
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