Entries from December 2006

My paintings

Published on December 31st, 2006 by Malachi

I have evolved these paintings on paper from the one-of-a-kind handpainted slipcase covers that I make for my “RANAPHILIA: Love of Frog” (Three miniature books, slipcased, which I describe as “eccentric frogiana”.) I wanted to do these as “frogskins” –in a sense, replicating the extraordinary range of batrachian colors.
As it happened, quite a few people [...]

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On Poetry

Published on December 30th, 2006 by Malachi

On Poetry
There is an old Irish Triad about poetry that has always appealed to me –it says so much about poetry, and committment to poetry, and the demand that poetry exerts upon us:
It is death to mock a poet
It is death to love a poet
It is death to be a poet
I don’t know how far [...]

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