in front of the garden gate – JezzieG
Dancing Girls
Album: Human Racing
Date: 1984
Genre: Pop
Artist: Nik Kershaw
Nik Kershaw is a singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. As a solo artist, he came to prominence in the 1980s with singles such as ‘Wouldn’t It Be Good,’ and ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.’
Self Portrait
1996
Portraiture
Oil on canvas
Private Collection
In his second self-portrait, Zeng presents an image of himself against a golden-yellow background. He stands in front of faded Chinese writing with smashed watermelons strewn around him. He is wearing Western-style clothing with a red neckerchief symbolizing communist China.
Zeng Fanzhi
Expressionism
Born: 1964, Wuhan, China
Nationality: Chinese
Zeng Fanzhi is a contemporary artist based in Beijing. From his early career, his work has been marked by their emotional directness, the intuitive psychological sense of the artist, and the carefully crafted expressionism of his technique. Zeng moved to Beijing in the early 1990s, and his art showed an instant shift, as a reaction to his immersion in a superficial environment, his influential Mask series displayed the tensions between the artist’s concerns of existentialism and a sardonic treatment of the pomposity and posturing of his new urban life. Zeng’s expressionistic styles run counter to the conventional usage, representing the raw, exposed flesh or awkwardly oversized hands is not an attempt at pure expressions of emotion but a play on the superficially composed appearance of the subject, an ironic emotional performance metaphorizing the lost self, of stunted self-awareness
Violin Fantasy on Puccini’s ‘Turandot’
1997
New Age
Vanessa Mae
Classical, Classical Pop
Born: 27 October 1978, Singapore
Nationality: Thai-British
Mae is a violinist and has achieved album sales reaching several million, and in 2006 she was the wealthiest entertainer under 30. Mae also competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn for Thailand in the 2014 Winter Olympics alpine skiing
Risk
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom
Anais Nin
Born: 21 February 1903, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Nationality: French-American
Died: 14 January 1977, California, USA
Nin was a diarist, essayist, novelist, and poet. She spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, then lived in Paris, France before moving to the USA where she spent the remainder of her life
Darkest Sight
Form: Gwawdodyn
A journey begun with lost belief
The death of light in darkness and grief
Like a sharpened blade old truth could only fade
But from its end, I found sweet relief
I watched pious teachings turn to ash
I saw so many sweet angels crash
On the ground as lies of heaven, they found
The pain inside my soul like whiplash
I felt alone like a man bereaved
My heart broken; I had been deceived
In this darkest sight, I saw a new light
Of how my own truth could be achieved
©JezzieG2024
Inspired by and written for the Ragtag Daily Prompt, my thanks to Curious Cat
Form: Barzeletta
My eyes gaze upon the night sky
To the little stars sparkle by
Bringing the night its magic dreams
That come alive in lunar beams
A sparkle from light-years away
Yet its beauty is shining bright
A distant sub we see at night
As to its worlds, it brings the day
The light I see is an old one
From a time that is long gone
I wonder if it’s still out there
But for now, it is mine to share
A sparkle from light-years away
Yet its beauty is shining bright
A distant sub we see at night
As to its worlds, it brings the day
©JezzieG2024
From the Back of the Wardrobe 