Fallen Feather
by Beverley Harper Tinsley
Original - Sold
Price
$195
Dimensions
11.500 x 8.500 inches
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Title
Fallen Feather
Artist
Beverley Harper Tinsley
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Graphite
Description
Fallen Feather Watercolor Painting
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Fallen Feather is large feather painted in warm earthy tones, with a strong shadow, attention to the soft and downy texture of the subject and a simplicity of composition and background that lends itself to both modern and earthy decor styles. It will look good in your living room, office, yoga studio, love nest....
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This original painting is being offered double matted in a white mat, with an inner grey blue matting, framed in an aged looking wood style frame. Please contact the artist for pictures of the work as framed.
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I confess to a powerful habit of collecting, hoarding and scattering natural found objects (think.....pinecones, bird nests, random rocks, shells, seed pods, beetle bodies etc.) all over my abode, probably much to the dismay of my husband (who can't complain because he has more than a few animal skulls to contribute). Sometimes I get the urge to paint these objects, so here is one.
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I also enjoy reading the novels of Tom Robbins, so after you hang this on your wall over your comfy. cozy reading nest, grab a favorite beverage and get seriously involved with a good book. Maybe even read it aloud to someone else. Just a suggestion.....
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Please enjoy the following excerpt from Tom Robbin's "Jitterbug Perfume" (and stay light):
The woman in the snowy tunic notices Kudra. She smiles. "Do you understand what is happening here?" she inquires. "We weigh their hearts. Should a person possess a heart that is as light as a feather, then that person is granted immortality.
"Indeed? Are there many?"
"Few. Precious few, I am sorry to say. One would think that people would catch on. Those who pass the test are usually rather odd...the ordinary rarely beat the scales."
"Where do they go, then, all of those who fail?" Kudra pointed toward the water, where another ship of light was just whooshing away, leaving a milky wake.
"To the energy realms."
"Never to return?"
The woman shrugs. "As energy, perhaps. As light."
"But the ones who pass the test...?"
"The immortals? They are free to take any direction they like. Free to embark on a sea voyage, to return to your world, or to some different world." She places yet another heart upon the balance, squealing with delight when it does not send the balance dish plummeting to the altar top. "Look," she says to Kudra, "Look at this one. Now here is one that is fairly close."
This organ was ripped from the corpulent breast of a jolly-faced troubadour. He doesn't comprehend the commotion, but he is winking at Kudra, rubbing his belly, and looking as if he'd gladly trade his butchered heart for a pint of ale.
"Had he combined his hedonism with a pinch more wisdom, had he poured slightly less into his gullet and slightly more into his soul, he might have made it," says the weigher of hearts. "Still, he earns a pink ticket."
She hands the troubadour something strongly resembling a carnation petal and motions him to a side door. Kudra follows him and learns that this door, too, leads down to the water, but to an empty dock. From above, the woman signals him to wait.
For quite a long time, the troubadour stands there. To relieve his tedium, he whistles a tune, a medieval ballad of courtly love. Suddenly, he is silenced in mid-whistle, his lips periwinkled in a frozen pucker. A ship is pulling into view.
As it nears dockside, Kudra sees that it is a barge, of considerable length, and canopied with pink lined, from whose edges fringe and tassels dangle, The barge is hung with paper lanterns, in which candles blaze gaily. Scattered about the deck are tables and chairs, resembling those of an inn, and here sit people eating spicy southern foods and sipping beer and pineapple coolers. Minstrels with droopy black mustaches wander the deck, strumming guitars. Women in shoes with heels like daggers dance, rattling tambourines all the while and cooing lubricious phrases to the many parrots that occupy crude wooden cages. From below deck, a katzenjammer of libidinous voices is heard. On the side of the barge, the name Hell has been painted.
Despite the fact that there's no odor to give magnitude to the foods on deck or to the sex below, the passengers seem merry. Kudra believes that she recognizes one of them. Unless she is mistaken, it is Fosco, the calligrapher from the Samye lamasery. He is at a table, in repartee with a pair of elderly Chinamen, whom he addresses as Han Shan and Li Po. They hurl lines of spontaneous poetry at one another, each trying to top the last, often slapping the tabletop and laughing wildly. Kudra waves and waves, but it is impossible to get Fusco's attention. The dead have little interest in the living, she surmises.
The barge scrapes against the dock with a careless rasp. The captain, a seedy Spaniard in a comic-opera version of a military uniform, leans over the rail and takes the troubadour's pink ticket. Once the fellow is aboard, the vessel floats lazily away, bound for unknown sprays.
As the barge departs, it turns, affording a view of its starboard side. On this side, the vessel wears a different name entirely. Heaven is what it says.
Kudra returns to the scales. The young woman is hard at work, testing hearts, assaying the precious metals of the life well-lived. "How did you land this job?" asks Kudra.
"I was not feather-light, but I was feather-bright," she answers.
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