“Circulation”

12”x24” encaustic, 2020 January 1.

This one was inspired by a poem by Claudio Bertoni - "Para Una Joven Amiga Que Intentó Quitarse La Vida". It goes like this:

"I'd like to be a nest if you were a little bird.
I'd like to be a scarf if you were a neck and were cold.
If you were music, I'd be an ear.
If you were water, I'd be a glass.
If you were light, I'd be an eye.
If you were a foot, I'd be a sock.
If you were the sea, I'd be a beach.
And if you were still the sea, I'd be a fish,
and I'd swim in you.
And if you were the sea, I'd be salt.
And if I were salt, you'd be lettuce,
an avocado or at least a fried egg.
And if you were a fried egg,
I 'd be a piece of bread.
And if I were a piece of bread,
you'd be butter or jam.
If you were jam,
I'd be the peach in the jam.
If I were a peach,
you'd be a tree.
And if you were a tree,
I'd be your sap...
and I'd course through your arms like blood.
And if I were blood,
I'd live in your heart."

I attempted to play with associations between the human blood circulation, trees (cherry blossom), nature, peace, and love. There's one universal love and it's everywhere in all living beings...