We Drew Sleep From Stones
About this artwork
The pastel is applied by first crumbling it onto the paper in small amounts, and then smoothing it across the surface by hand. The mountain area formed of ink is made using a dip pen with fine nib, and the fine marks in the graphite section utilise a technical pencil.
This work and its title have taken inspiration from a poem by Don Domanski.
Unborn
Charon folding water Morpheus folding dreams
a dark road ahead of us a dark forest with whispers
where the leaves should be not clouds overhead
but an afterlife not wind but a laying on of hands
evening came down from the mountain to reassure us
with its presence its footprints without footsteps
sight without eyes it held us and we felt like grass
moving through grass like a sigh along a riverbed
we stood in each other's shadow lay in each other's arms
vertebrates invertebrates every possible form
and like numina we drew sleep from stones breath from fire
like virga we sang of a reality deeper than the mind.
Don Domanski
Selected Poems, 1975 - 2001 — Corbel Stone Press
Pastel, iron gall ink, acrylic ink, graphite, on paper
Paper size: 47 x 27 cm
Image size: 43 x 23 cm
2024