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ART EXHIBIT
"Poppies in October" by Colijn
Strydom
Venue: iArt Gallery Wembley, Wembley Square, Gardens, Cape
Town. Tel: (021) 414 5150.
Gallery Hours:
Duration: 27 Jan - 24 Feb 2010
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This exhibition
consists of a collection of drawings by Colijn Strydom, inspired by the
artist’s obsessive response to Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Poppies in October”.
In this body of work, rendered in architect’s pen on paper, Strydom has
taken flowers as a primary motif. Through his painstakingly intricate and
neurotically delicate imaginative expansions of the poem, Strydom explores
the expansion of his own psychological response to matters of the
personal, the political, the decorative, the corporeal and the ultimately
beautiful.
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“Poppies in October” (Sylvia Plath, 1962
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly –
A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky
Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.
O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers
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