Painted Drawings

WIL ABALLE ART PROJECTS

SOLO EXHIBITION Vancouver, June 6 to July 20, 2019

With an exhibition text by poet, writer and scholar Julianne Okot Bitek

SONG AND DREAD (2019)

sometimes there’s song & sometimes there’s dread sometimes an awfulness thick as lava crawls down the hill sometimes there’s gratitude & other times zen markings blue markings orange foot markings clay markings felt sometimes there’s cloth sometimes the dreariness punctuates sometimes it levitates sometimes there’s glory in the wearer of the tunic sometimes a halo or a cloud sometimes there’s music there sometimes there’s glory in the grey of the tunic sometimes there’s a blue halo echoed in black sometimes there’s a shoulder other times a foot a club a finger taking note a wailing child sometimes I love you I do sometimes the sunset is pink & it’s not a big deal sometimes the company of throngs won’t do sometimes I’m awake & I think about paper other times I think about how your laughter bounces back from the sky & splinters into shards of light onto the page before me sometimes your sobs are mighty & other times you’re aquiver in my arms one time you were completely gone & all I had left was a splash of colour on the dining table two tablespoons of memory & a fistful of aches

Photo Credit: Mike Love