I love that you can access incredible artworks through galleries’ open access policies. I encourage you to follow the links in either the quote or the caption below and see van Gogh’s painting in zoom close up. There’s no way you see so much detail in a gallery.
“The painting reveals the artist’s extraordinarily original sense of color, as well as his richly expressive paint application as he struggles to evoke the nubby waxen skin of the various fruits, the spiky fur of the branches, and the limp material of the worn gloves.” – The National Gallery of Art
I thought of that quote when writing the poem below. Here are more in my ekphrastic series.
Life in Arles
I ate half the oranges you brought me,
Half the lemon I used in tea and cake,
The cypress branches I used for a wreath,
The garden gloves worn until my hands ached.
I used the orchard trees as a windbreak,
Gazed at mountains as I walked the wheat field,
Studied the light on the lavender yield.
And the sun reminded me of why I
left your fruit basket displayed. It revealed
how colour shapes all that’s good in my life.
@elsp2025
Beautiful 💖❤️
Thank you!🩷