Acrylic ink on yupo paper (26” x 40”).

Painting does not include poster rails for hanging. Original signature on back.

Undeniably inspired by Spring this year (2024). I couldn’t help but paint with pastels and hues of this season in March. When pondering of a name for this series, the E.E. Cummings Poem “[since feeling is first]” sauntered into my mind & pleasantly lingered. So here it is (see emboldened line for the title!)

since feeling is first

who pays any attention 
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate 
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis