Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Shadow Paintings

 

Finnicky awkward is creation. I come up with the most spellbinding works of art, when I’m in the shower, when I’m lying in bed before sleep, when I’m scrubbing my toilet. A direct feed should transmit what’s in my head. The ideas. I flailingly pencil as I write them, tied tongue when I speak them, chicken scratch sketches. They are never quite the object envisioned. They are shadows, reflections, portraits out of proportion. The muse sparkles with water-coloured emotions dancing naked in the moonlight like no one is watching.

But she is bashful.

She scurries away while I’m playing with the zoom on the camera. Even so, I love my creations despite them not quite being what I had in mind. Like George Constanza I may never have children. This is my legacy, these are my babies, even if they’re misshapen.

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