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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Experiment: An Image from a Past Life


My art instructor, Sabrina, asked me in one of my lessons earlier this spring, to do an "imaginary drawing" using ink wash and Chinese brush pen, while she read out loud this portion from a Yeats poem:

Never until this night have I been stirred.
The elaborate star-light has thrown reflections

On the dark stream,

Till all the eddies gleam;

And thereupon there comes that scream

From terrified, invisible beast or bird:

Image of poignant recollection.


-- from An Image from a Past Life

by William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
1865-1939