Improvised New Life
To celebrate new beginnings, I'm delighted to share our first guest post by a young Chinese artist and poet Yun Yi. She's an avid blogger and her poetic meditations on the art of one of my favorite artists Paul Klee. is inspiring.
I am an artist by profession, a thinker by nature, a poet by heart.
Originally come from China, living in U.S. for over 16 years, I started writing English poems several years ago. Contrary to my realistic art style, I developed a “hobby” to break the realism in my poems, a strong desire to transform my creativity from “visible reality” into “invisible abstraction”. However I still feel like doing art in my poetry - I make “paintings” by words, trying to capture an imaginary “landscape” which consists of both my “intuition” and “reflection”. This is how I found paintings of Paul Klee inspiring - his geometrical forms and playful compositions instantly disconnected me from the material world, “elevated” me into a place that is completely free from the boundary of reality.
Abstract - reading Paul Klee #19
Improvised New Life
In a brief moment of
absent-mindedness
a new life was improvised
as some tree-shaped figures
soon transformed
into musical notes
joyfully
departed from
their unseeded
womb
Categories: Writing, Art, Spirituality
Tags: improvised new life- yun yi paul klee-poetry-boomer muse chinese new year-2012-dragon-new moon
Gorgeous!!!! very Klee ! But Gorgeous.
Soo Klimt, too!
My daughter just blogged on her Wordpress from Hong Kong. So many great photos. And the celebration is like bombing!
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K, this is a painting by Klee.
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Beautiful words and the art. Together the synergy is powerful.
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oh, yes! my mind slipped into a late-night slipstream. The poem is lovely, too.
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Layla,
I am so happy to see my poem here, on this first day of Dragon year! Thank you!.
Also thanks for everyone who commented here. May all of you have a wonderful dragon year!
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It was my pleasure and maybe we can do this again some time.
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of course layla! anytime
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Layla, what a thrill for me to click on your link today and find yunyi's wonderful poem on your blog. Two of my favorite people in all of cyberspace.
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Big smile here
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