Straw Hat, poem by Kerfe Roig (ME, IN A HAT Poetry & Prose Series)
I have more to say about this image, and more images from this block. We’ll be back next week. Happy Thanksgiving from both of us!
Straw Hat
by Kerfe Roig
I don’t remember
why I bought it. A straw hat.
I painted myself
wearing it: young, jaunty, full
of optimism. Moving
on to other dreams
beyond, past the unrealized,
I lost that self. My
self in that moment, that hat,
in that portrait. Who I was.
And now I draw on
memory. An inexact
rendering of time,
the intersection of lines
reaching forward and then back.
IMAGE: “Straw Hat,” self-portrait by Kerfe Roig.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I’m working on 100 self-portraits inspired by other artists. This block print was based on a print by Vanessa Bell. When I saw her image, I immediately thought of the now-lost self-portrait I had painted in my twenties, a young woman in her straw hat. I tried to reproduce the feeling of it that remained in my mind, now wearing the hat on my present, much older…
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- December 7, 2016 -
Good to see you here
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Thanks Lynn…I look forward to checking back in with you. Hope all is well with you and your family.
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Thanks we are all well, I hope you are
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Yes we are, thanks.
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Welcome back! 😊
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Thanks!
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And good luck with the novel/applications. And yes, I’m trying to avoid the news these days myself…
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Thanks! No news is good news, right? 😊
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Sadly, yes.
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Hi KERFE! How wonderful to see you back! And what a beautiful work of art and even more wonderful words to go with it! Oh How I’ve missed these posts of yours! Hi to you and Nina! Look forward to more! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thanks Jodi, I hope all is well, and you were able to gather the family together for Thanksgiving.
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We sure did – including our new little granddaughter! 🙂 ❤
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Happy thanksgiving to both of you 😀 It’s really nice to see your post pop up in my feed. Wonderful work and words too! Welcome back 💕💜
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Thanks Snehal. Good to see your face as well!
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Happy Thanksgiving! Missed your blogging!
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Thanks Jack. We will be around now, hopefully more on than off…
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Oh, I love this! The combinations of colour, shape and media are splendid. More please! 🙂
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Thanks Rebecca. I had fun with the block print, and I did quite a few variations…I will get to a post about it soon.
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I’ll look forward to that! 🙂
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Lovely work!
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Thanks Sofia.
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Missed you two
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Simply beautiful
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Thanks Sheldon.
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