Mitchell Thread #7

 

There is
method in my madness.
There are
ways and means.

Sequence.
There is observation, preparation, approach.
There are patterns, recipes, schemes.

There is
ceremony.
There are
paths.

Order.
There is structure, arrangement, organization.
There are combinations, distributions, designs.

There is
inheritance.
There are maps.

Process.
There are
no systems, no rules, no codes.
There is
no canon.

Method
there is
and madness
there is
and there are
(always)
possibilities.

I had a vision for where I wanted to go after Nina’s last drawing in this series.  It definitely involved a window and a mirror.  The finished collage isn’t quite what I saw in my mind, but the materials at hand and the day and my state of mind and body are always factors in what results when I begin work.  The shadow crept in too.

As to the poem, how could I neglect to take up Jane Dougherty’s challenge to write something using the saying “method in my madness”?