Title
O love, O eros, O me!
Will you stay with me?
In the forest with elders
and birdsong
Details
380 x 278mm
2025, Charcoal, soft pastel on paper
SOLD
Process
This drawing is one of six exhibited in Poems for Independence at Braemar Gallery in 2025 as a series of visual 'poems for Indy' - a gentle way of personifying 'independence' and what it means to me.
The series shares a scaffold of line work that brings to mind sheet music or architectural working drawings, providing a recurring structure to experiment with text and gestural marks.
This particular work is about love, energy, and the erotic.
References
Eros is an Ancient Greek concept of sensual and passionate love, with some contemporary uses being closer to 'life force', but in making this work I was thinking most about Audre Lorde's writing on the erotic.
Audre Lorde: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.
Paper delivered at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mount Holyoke College, August 25, 1978.
Later published as a chapter in Sister Outsider.