Press the button. “Quien es?” asks he. “It’s GABY!” The smell of expensive cologne wafts through the air. A running start and my legs and arms are everywhere, only to be contained in curvilinear arms. The usual crisp linen shirt is a bit scratchy, but I shrug it off. Then, it is time to look around and explore through all the treasures. My own secret Louvre awaits me. The statues stare back salaciously. I snicker for they must be cold standing so high on their pedestals for all to see. Charily examine each painting closely. My nose almost touches the canvas. Such unusual paintings they were. Disfigured humans, spats of paint thrown, hidden shapes and animals. They are the dreams no one speaks of for they make no sense. Imagination runs wild, colors pour out in every direction. Up to the balcony, the top of the world I go. Up the cold marble steps and touch the chalcedony walls for support. So shiny I can see my younger self. On one side, cars whiz by and the apartments are my height; the other, the ocean. Oh, the beautiful ocean! Let me stay up here forever! Please? But there is a surprise. Let us visit him. Take my hand and off we go. We pass the lissome palm trees and the quaint houses while the guitar serenades. Air turned all the way up to escape from the torrid heat, though the leather still burns. Redolent paints of caput mortuum and gamboge. Different. Blotch here and brush there. The artist talks with mellifluous voice of his paintings. They are the paintings of the unusual dreams. I have found the dreamer, the creator.
- curvilinear: (adj.) consisting of or bounded by curved lines
- salacious: (adj.) appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious
- charily: (adv.) carefully; warily
- chalcedony: (n.) a microcrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, often milky or grayish
- lissome: (adj.) easily bent; supple
- torrid: (adj.) oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air
- redolent: (adj.) having or emitting fragrance; aromatic
- caput mortuum: (n.) also known as Cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple variety of haematite iron oxide pigment, used in oil paints and paper dyes. It was a very popular colour for painting the robes of religious figures and important personages
- gamboge: (n.) a brownish or orange resin obtained from several trees of the genus Garcinia of south-central Asia and yielding a golden-yellow pigment
- mellifluous: (adj.) flowing with sweetness or honey
1 comment:
it seems as if you know this artist. a relative or an extension of you - or both? elmeer
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