This painting is a 30” X 30” acrylic - work in progress. It is a commissioned piece. The request was for an abstract painting size 30” X 30”. An E.E Cummings poem was sent to be my inspiration. I find the poem beautiful and full of inspiring images. I could do dozens of paintings based on these words. Here is the poem 
 
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond      
by E. E. Cummings 
 
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond 
any experience,your eyes have their silence: 
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, 
or which i cannot touch because they are too near 
 
your slightest look easily will unclose me 
though i have closed myself as fingers, 
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens 
(touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose 
 
or if your wish be to close me, i and 
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, 
as when the heart of this flower imagines 
the snow carefully everywhere descending; 
 
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals 
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture 
compels me with the color of its countries, 
rendering death and forever with each breathing 
 
(i do not know what it is about you that closes 
and opens;only something in me understands 
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) 
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands | 
So Beautiful, and musical! I Love it!!
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