Veils to Clothe Venus With is a painting by Brenda Clews which was uploaded on May 12th, 2013.
Veils to Clothe Venus With
Painting is like dreaming. You dream without really knowing where the images come from, or how they are created by your mind. Likewise with painting... more
by Brenda Clews
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Title
Veils to Clothe Venus With
Artist
Brenda Clews
Medium
Painting - Ink And Oil On Canvas
Description
Painting is like dreaming. You dream without really knowing where the images come from, or how they are created by your mind. Likewise with painting - you know you're doing it, but you don't often know what it's about while you are doing it. The painting arises as if from a dream.
Botticelli's Venus was very pure, a virginal goddess, and yet she ushered in the Renaissance itself as she represented the lofty ideal of beauty from antiquity. There was also Venus Pandemos, a more seductive and sultry goddess, and this seems to be who I have painted. We are all of a whole. She also reminds me of the woman clothed with the sun from Revelations, "A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." She is both pure, and not pure, and alluring while keeping herself hidden from the voyeur eye.
The poem fragment is from a poem in my "Suite of Botticelli Venus Poems":
Veils to clothe Botticelli's Venus
A poem arises catching the energy, imparting meaning, hesitant, faltering for words, images, rhythms.
My love for you.
Slowly, through endless revisions,
shaping this love.
Disparate layers emerge, an undercurrent infiltered with strands, approaches, understandings, memories, hopes, desires,
the way the sensual mind composes.
We create ourselves through each other. It's more complete,
who I am with you.
Not a version of reality but a veil of being,
the poem of love that is
a transparent garment we clothe ourselves with,
our metaphors and concepts of a world
which resists
our gaze.
Writing is a deeply
meditative act.
A language of love.
A listening.
[There is a recording of this poem with music by Buz Hendricks: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/700885/veils-to-clothe-venus]
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May 12th, 2013
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