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2013-05-20 12:33:39 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it." by the poet, W.H. Auden

2013-05-19 21:08:55 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
8” x 10” in 13.5” x 16.5” mat & frame under glass
Acrylic on sculpted card stock embedded in acrylic plaster

"The Dermis Layer"

Underneath
the flap
that
bends,

embedded
in
the sculpted fold,

there
inside
the dermis layer,

triangulate
the
crusted care.

Hide
within
the alien form,

until
the
ribbon split
flies toward morn.

Gari Hatch
11-14-2011

2013-05-19 13:27:19 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Gari Hatch's Sculpted Textural Paintings

2013-05-18 18:00:40 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Modern Sculpted Wire Painting:
8" x 10" in 14.5" x 17.5" mat and frame under glass
Scupted copper wire with acrylic on canvas

"A Trapeze Act"

A ribbon of wire, twisted shapes,
mounted to the canvas face.

Embolden strokes of purple and blue,
sienna and ochre give a different hue.

Dare to paint the strokes with force,
still light as air, they sweep the course.

And up above the flying wire,
a trapeze act that can inspire.

Throw a lasso to the acrobats,
watch them swoop on the circus tract.

Gari Hatch
02-22-2009

2013-05-17 23:39:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

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2013-05-17 17:52:36 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Modern Painting:
8" x 10" in 14.5" x 17.5" mat and frame under glass
Acrylic painting with two dove feathers on art board

"The Scarlet Swoon"

See the sliver, see the slip,
all the colors in descent.

Winged and flapping in a soar,
nose-dive plumage, a feathered lore.

The scarlet swoon, calypso blue,
an ochre rudder on a hazy tide.

Ribbon limbs swoop to find,
a lifting current that will be kind.

Mythic creature streaking by,
holding court within the sky.

Gari Hatch
07-19-2008

2013-05-16 22:52:52 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

These are three of my small sculptures.
The poem is about the grid sculpture in the middle.

"Sculpt the Matrix"

Transport me to the inner cells,
along the grid within the well.

Sculpt the matrix, cubicle plane,
does geometry know my name?

Monolith, metallic wall,
climb, climb, if you hear the call?

An odyssey to deeper space,
equation to a hiding place.

Gari Hatch
04-29-2011

2013-05-16 16:01:28 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Painting and Poem Handwritten Journal Entry for 01-15-2009:

2013-05-15 14:25:56 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

I just finished this painting and poem early this morning.

Modern Painting:
7” x 5” in 10” x 8” mat
Acrylic on art board

“In the Vortices”

Painted creatures
in
the spin,

around
the unseen Maypole,
they begin.

Tied
to
the dangled dance,

in
the vortices,
a knotted trance.

Like
dervishes
outstretched in black,

celebrate the swirl
on
the inward track.

Gari Hatch
05-15-2013

2013-05-14 14:41:40 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Painting and Poem Handwritten Journal Entry for 12-22-2007:

2013-05-14 01:10:01 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Sculpture: Height 12”, Width 9”, Depth 3”
Sculpture materials: Red-headed Woodpecker skull,
four dove feathers, metal wire, two
Sycamore tree branches and wooden box
(Archival Collection)

"Skeleton Bird"

From organic means a sculpture grows,
with a bird skull, it begins to know.

Them bones, them bones, they hop again,
through branch and stem, on lifted wind.

Form a structure where it can stand,
with beak and feather revive the dead.

Raise your wings on black and white,
the skeleton bird dances all night.

Gari Hatch
03-02-2011

2013-05-12 01:27:25 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Here is another photograph of my latest sculpted textural painting with one my sculptures by it. I activated the flash on the camera with this capture. It conveyed more blues in the magenta and less of the red violet spectrum in it. These are the differences between low lighting and flash lighting.

2013-05-11 18:18:00 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
8” x 10” in 14.5” x 17.5” mat and frame under glass
Acrylic on sculpted acrylic plaster

“Find the Eddy”

In the place
that
undulates,

on
a landscape
pushed by winds,

find the eddy
in
the curve,

where the current
rides
the swerve.

On the ripple
of
the hills,

remind me
how
a painting heals.

Does the texture
whisper
low,

in
the valley
where we go?

Gari Hatch
06-03-2012

2013-05-10 15:24:45 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

I finished my latest painting and poem early this morning.

Sculpted Textural Painting:
20” width x 16” height (unframed)
Acrylic on sculpted paper embedded
in sculpted acrylic plaster

“Studies in Deep Magenta”

In
deep magenta,
feelers
reach,

while the whole
tumbles
in
the drape.

Swim the surface,
raise
your fins,

a painting’s skin
crawls
the thin.

Follow the movement
in
the plane’s raise,

under the folds
hides
inner space.

Gari Hatch
05-10-2013

2013-05-09 00:42:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

05-08-2013: Third day and the last rays of sunlight coming through the window on my latest work. A few more subtle changes to the surface today and tomorrow comes the paint…

2013-05-08 03:26:41 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Painting and Poem Handwritten Journal Entry for 06-29-2010:

2013-05-07 17:13:05 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

05-07-2013: Second day of work on my latest sculpted textural painting. The progression continues… Some things tumble in the drape, they drift and float to find their way…

2013-05-06 00:18:53 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
8" x 10" in 15" x 17.5" mat and frame under glass
Acrylic on sculpted paper embedded
in scored and chiseled acrylic plaster

"Red Napkins"

Folded napkins, sculpted cloth,
pressed and framed for dinner guests.

Shaped and starched to surprise us all,
they wait for hands to make them fall.

But while their placed in the dinner hall,
this origami fabric leaves much to awe.

They wait for lips to kiss their weave, 
shake loose this form, to eat and leave.

Gari Hatch
11-28-2008

2013-05-04 15:57:42 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Abstract Floral Painting:
8” x 10” in 12.5” x 15.5” mat & frame
Acrylic on art board
Painted on: 10-03-2005
(Archival Collection)

"A Blur of Tulips"

A blur of tulips in the field,
 their silhouettes are vibrant still.

The colors divide in softer hues,
the petals drink the heavy dews.

The focus lost on something rare,
the form of flowers beyond compare.

Such morning hours smudge the line,
when pallets shine the undefined.

Gari Hatch
12-02-2007

2013-05-03 15:15:09 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

05-03-2013: Early morning hours on a gray rainy day with canvas and paintbrush at my art-drafting table in my home surrounded by  Bienville National Forest. 

Art quote for the day:

“Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”   ― Ally Condie, Reached

2013-05-02 16:35:38 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

A new poem with a segment of one of my paintings.

“Deflection’s Haste”

Where does the skirmish
begin
to gnaw,

does confession spur
the need
to
flaw?

Can brokenness
inhibit
all

or
does grace recover
those who fall?

Shun,
it comes
in
such small ways,

building layers
in
deflection’s haste.

Judgments rushed
without
a plea,

stones thrown
at
those in need.

Gari Hatch
05-02-2013

2013-05-01 21:13:55 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
14” x 11” in 19” x 15” mat & frame
Acrylic on sculpted plaster

"The Red Winds of Mars"

The painted winds, the burning sand,
red and fierce, they stir the land.

The eddies spiral, magenta curls,
on the surface, crimson hurl.

A streak of ochre, the amber grain,
dust remembers beauty’s plain.

The sweeping spill that claims the brush,
the burnished lines that give the rush.

Silica invades the gazing eyes,
still the hand casts the dyes.

Gari Hatch
05-20-2007

2013-05-01 02:24:14 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Painting and Poem Handwritten Journal Entry for 12-22-2012 and 12-24-2012:

2013-04-30 02:43:05 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Modern Painting:
5” x 7” in 8” x 10” mat
Acrylic on art board

“They Swim the Soft”

Some things
arch
to
find their way,

they drape themselves
inside
the bow.

They swim the soft
toward
the light,

slivered fragments
of
the night.

Can you follow
where
they guide,

under the belly
to
the slender side?

Gari Hatch
04-29-2013

2013-04-29 18:27:33 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

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2013-04-28 19:32:42 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Painting and Poem Handwritten Journal Entry for 09-20-2012:

2013-04-27 17:57:35 (11 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

This is one of my early paintings when my father became
ill in August 2006. I wrote the poem when he died in October 2006.
It was sad eyes for a sad time…

I have kept true to his charge to me. “Take care of your mother…”

Modern Painting:
18” x 22” in frame
Acrylic on art board
Painted on: 08-18-2006
(Archival Collection)

"Does Sorrow Leave Us"

What worlds of grief have borne this name?
What shadow lands were walked in pain?

Did life abandon this broken one,
and leave this place with all undone?

How can one know the course to take,
when all around, the heart does break?

Does sorrow leave us far and wide,
without a place where we can hide?

Then with our tears, we lift our face,
and ask for strength and yes, for grace.

Gari Hatch10-30-200... more »

2013-04-27 04:00:42 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

Paintings from different periods of time stacked together to study color, form and texture. Transitions always in play...

2013-04-26 22:06:07 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Modern Abstract Painting:
11" x 14" in 18.5" x 22.5" mat and frame under glass
Acrylic on art board
Painted on: 10-02-2007

"The Flying Carpet"


The twisted carpet leaned toward the sky,

then

Ali Baba said, “Oh, magic carpet can you fly?

Unfurl your magic threads for me

and

let us rise to see,

the city domes

and

how they gleam."

Gari Hatch
03-12-2008

2013-04-26 01:52:47 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Modern Painting:
8” x 10” in 11” x 14” mat
Acrylic on art board

"Cradle the Floating"

Colors, patterns,
brushstroke
shapes,

cradle
the floating
in
suspended space.

Hover
where
the blearing goes,

the radius core
to
circumference glow.

Whisper
where
the faint edge tows,

the light will follow
from
below.

Gari Hatch
04-25-2013

2013-04-25 21:19:09 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

I just finished this painting and poem this afternoon.

Modern Painting:
8” x 10” in 11” x 14” mat
Acrylic on art board

“Cradle the Floating”

Colors, patterns,
brushstroke
shapes,

cradle
the floating
in
suspended space.

Hover
where
the blearing goes,

the radius core
to
circumference glow.

Whisper
where
the faint edge tows,

the light will follow
from
below.

Gari Hatch
04-25-2013

2013-04-25 00:37:23 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Abstract Painting:
8" x 10" in 13.5" x 17" mat and frame under glass
Acrylic on art board
Painted on: 09-11-2007

"Waves Blur"

There is a slender place
that
undulates,

waves
swell and vibrate.

Spaces where colors
slip and fall,

the pigment sweeps
and
then it stalls.

Blue stream
find
the blur,

the rhythmic form
will
concur.

Curve, bend,
arch, turn,

summon, summon,
current churn.

Follow the fade
lost to norms,

travel
where
the ribbon’s born

Gari Hatch
04-14-2008

Poem Revised on:
04-24-2013

2013-04-24 01:17:46 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

This painting is in my bedroom where it has been since I completed it.
One of those small works that I have never been able to part with.

Sculpted Textural Painting:
4” x 6” in 7.5” x 9.5” mat and frame 
Acrylic on sculpted plaster
Completed on: 02-17-2007

"The Dancing Pelican"

I looked
across
a distant lake,

and
low to
my surprise,

there
it stood
an awesome sight,

a golden
dancing pelican.

A lift of the head,
a lift of the wings,

a rise of the feet,
a prancing dream,

a beautiful bird
shining
bright,

the magnificent
dancing pelican.

Gari Hatch
01-11-2008

2013-04-22 18:44:21 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

You could have almost no financial resources but if you have passion and vision—you can take the few resources that you do have and generate something almost from nothing. A little paint, a surface and some brushes and watch the vision grow in the face of all odds. Undeterred and resilient, your inner hopes can find a way… Never give up! I am determined to press on! Despise not the day of small beginnings…

Gari Hatch
04-22-2013

2013-04-21 21:27:22 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
4" x 6" in 11.5" x 13.5" mat and frame under glass
Acrylic on sculpted paper & cracked glass on art board 

"Glowing Cracks"

Erupting colors, volcanic rim,
lava flows, magma brims.

Glowing cracks reveal the fire,
from the spew, the liquid spire.

Melting surface, breaking rock,
crystalline minerals cool and lock.

Swelling embers curl and turn,
on the canvas, bright the burn.

Gari Hatch
01-21-2010

2013-04-20 22:27:13 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
5" x 7" in 13" x 15" mat and frame under glass
Acrylic on sculpted paper embedded in sculpted plaster & owl feather on art board

"Horus"

There you fly with upward thrust,
son of Isis rising up.

Catch the draft, the stirring air,
falcon arching in the sky.

Horus, Egyptian, who owns the winds,
plummet down, begin again.

Take your flight with sculpted wing, 
suspended midair, a feathered fling.

Scan the heavens, make them yours,
on the canvas ride the swirls.

Gari Hatch
03-19-2010

2013-04-19 18:58:51 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Just finished my latest sculpted textural painting this afternoon.

Sculpted Textural Painting:
8” width x 8” height (unframed)
Acrylic on sculpted acrylic plaster

“The Shadowed Cleft”

On
the rooted plane,

in
the gnarl that crawls,

the secret hollow
calls
below.

From
alizarin crimson,
the tangle creeps,

frame a hiding place
inside
the deep.

Whisper
to
the shadowed cleft,

“Guard the heart
that
ponders the depth.”

Gari Hatch
04-19-2013

2013-04-17 20:55:31 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

04-17-2013: Third day and a few more slight sculpting changes to the surface of this new raised relief  artwork. The paint comes next but I must admit that I enjoy it in just a white environment too.

2013-04-17 19:23:25 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

Found these wings of a Luna moth resting on the back
doorsteps of our house this morning. I saw it flying last
night on its urgent journey. Now, its remains are resting
on the surface of one of my latest sculpted textural
paintings. 

Your last flight
against
the burning light,

beat your wings
with
all your might.

Fly, fly,
a mate to find,
too brief the night,

death comes quick
but how you rise
toward light.

Gari Hatch
04-17-2013

2013-04-17 00:18:46 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

04-16-2013: More progress on the afternoon of the second day of this raised relief sculpted artwork.  I will continue my efforts tomorrow…

2013-04-15 02:58:48 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

"This Fickle Flippant Want"

Fatuous moments spin their threads,
along the mind, inside the head.

Spawning images from an exiled land,
where deprived response finds the plan.

This donnish desire to shape the form,
to change the course to which you’re born.

To take this fickle flippant want,
then give credence to the hunger that haunts.

To chase these thoughts, to give them voice,
the undeterred resolute in the choice.

These epoch steps to the clarion call,
they bid you once in a lifetime to follow on.

Gari Hatch
11-10-2010

2013-04-14 02:36:43 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
24" x 30" (unframed)
Acrylic on sculpted acrylic plaster on canvas,

"Organic Sweep"

Emerging from the canvas plane,
organic sweep that rises and fades.

Colors move through the layers,
then ride on the selvage edge.

Forming shadows in the rugose rut,
first they glide and then they strut.

Islands of orange ascend from the sea,
pale blue currents engulf the scene.

We rise like this between the swells,
revealing parts of our hidden selves.

Gari Hatch
11-04-2010

2013-04-13 03:43:22 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Miniature Abstract Painting:
Acrylic on art board,
Painted on: 12-01-2006
(Archival Collection)

Splinters
in
metallic rifts, 

trajectories
that
hit and miss.

Like neutrinos
we
never know,

still they move
and
on they go."

Gari Hatch
04-12-2011

2013-04-11 15:45:28 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

Finished this painting early this morning.

Minimalism Abstract Painting:
5” width x 7”height in 11” x 14” mat
Acrylic on art board

“Serenity”

Silence often seeks
the
soft,

serenity
in
the brushed aloft.

Whisper where
the
hush can know,

on
the blurred path,
take it slow.

Soothe the angle
where
you lean,

ambiguity
need not
plead.

In
the ambient fade,
all things still,

nothing hurries,
nothing
reels.

Gari Hatch
04-11-2013

2013-04-10 16:27:17 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Painting and Poem Handwritten Journal Entry for 12-07-2012:

2013-04-09 13:56:25 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

I finished this new raised relief painting and poem early this morning.

Sculpted Textural Painting:
8” width x 8” height (unframed)
Acrylic on wooden cubes embedded
in sculpted acrylic plaster

“Inside the Tome”

The sequence
floats
within the layers,

a crimson
raised
above the green.

Equations key
a
music there,

map the code
that
breaks despair.

The textured rune
inside
the tome,

revelations
becoming
known.

Gari Hatch
04-09-2013

2013-04-06 16:21:32 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

I matted this painting this morning that I finished painting on March 22nd, 2013.

Modern Abstract Painting:
7” x 5” in 16” x 13” mat & frame under glass
Acrylic on art board

“The Message Threads”

Spatial cues
on
purple blue,

fractured forms
still
elude.

Sift the broken,
symbols
wait,

in
the stutter,
hesitate.

Follow fragments
to
the soft,

the message
threads
the under thought.

Gari Hatch
03-22-2013

2013-04-04 22:30:40 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

I just matted my newest painting this afternoon.

Sculpted Textural Painting:
7” width x 5” height in 10” x 8” mat
Acrylic on sculpted acrylic plaster
(Gift to a friend)

"Patina Scales"

A verdigris
that
crawls the gold,

patina scales,
a rhythm
told.

Oxidize
then
scrape the shine,

meld a place
the
ornate climbs.

Read the raised,
the
tactile way,

graze the rustic
where
it frays.

Gari Hatch
04-02-2013

2013-04-03 02:11:07 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

I finished this painting and poem tonight.

Sculpted Textural Painting:
Acrylic on sculpted acrylic plaster

“Patina Scales”

A verdigris
that
crawls the gold,

patina scales,
a rhythm
told.

Oxidize
then
scrape the shine,

meld a place
the
ornate climbs.

Read the raised,
the
tactile way,

graze the rustic
where
it frays.

Gari Hatch
04-02-2013

2013-04-03 19:06:03 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Sculpted Textural Painting:
8 "width x 8" height (unframed)
Acrylic on plaster sculpted acrylic on canvas

"From the Void"

Transformation
takes
a shape,

then converges
over
the colored deep.

It breathes
in
the movement's sway,

a presence
that
knows its way.

It sweeps the pale
from
the void,

a spiritual force
being
born.

Gari Hatch
04-01-2013