Can’t Poach a Picasso? Crave a Craver, instead…

A couple items in the news caught my eye this past week or so.

One was the sale of singer-actress Britney Spears first piece of art, for a worthy cause. $10,000... Wow! Not bad for a first painting! We artists should all do so well, even if her art was donated for a worthy cause.

Britney Spears' Watercolor Painting Auctioned Off for $10,000

Most likely, it was what Britney wore while painting this fine piece of art that made it most valuable... 😉 At least the celebrity and entertainment reporter, Robin Leach, thought so...

..Moving along now, we find that one of Cy Twombly's blackboard scribbles also managed to be auctioned off for what every living artist's heart beats for: $70.5 million (after taxes)...?! Whoah! And, not even bestowed a title? Sacrilege!

Perhaps having a really cool name, and all that, works just as well as Britney's couture...

Cy Twombly blackboard covered in scribbles fetches $70 million at Sotheby’s 

Untitled (New York City), 1968 by Cy Twombly

Sadly, artists like Twombly, Picasso, and Rembrandt had to pass onto the outer realms before they made a real killing with their art... Support your local artists who are still living on this fine planet of ours. It makes more sense! At least to the starving artists of the world, it does...

Imagine how much more valuable living artists' paintings may become after they have joined Twombly, Picasso and Rembrandt in the wild blue yonder above (of course, all artists go to Heaven, you know...) Your descendants will thank you for it, too!

So here I present a couple abstract doodles of mine which I "predict" could become very valuable over time, considering the popular taste in modern art, these days. Flowers and landscapes are soooo passe! I'll bet my bottom dollar they will be worth more than a "Cy Twombly", hands down... 😘

A Herpetology Abstract

(Can you spot the hidden cougar...?)

Check back with me in about a 100 years, and I will let you know... 😇

A Forest is Dying (An Ode to Mount Fromme)

This poem was first published in, "Where We’re From: An Anthology", Lynn Valley Literary Society, 2010.

It is reprinted here, as a homage to a "lost cause" in environmental activism -- at great loss and cost to the future ecological integrity of this mountain and watershed. 

And of course, ART.... 

"Brrr Naked Trees" (2017)

As I sit sipping hot

lemon tea

sweetened with sugar

I see in the corner of

my eye — Ghosts from an

aboriginal past

flit out from the forested path

across the street.

Turning to get a better look

they vanish like forest sprites

hiding their secrets from

ancient times.

The  forest held many stories

told, then lost within the

encroachment of Suburbia.

Of paths once travelled by

Scouts and Girl Guides,

now

casual hikers and thrill seeking

mountain bikers; dirt bikers;

young and old; dogs; cats; coyotes and bears.

The odd emaciated mountain lion

seeking refuge in a townhouse dumpster,

complete with over-processed, undercooked meals

Six days old.

Its plaintive yowls unnerve the

folk of Suburbia.

“Call the conservation officer;

local SPCA; RCMP”, who

humanely put the cat out of its misery

with three shots to the skull

that echo between

the mountains and post-beam houses.

Modern drumbeats.

On the Seventh Day the Lion rests

forever.

Another forest myth

hidden away for eternity.

The voice of the forest has become obliterated

by the drone

of aeroplanes and lawnmowers;

the crack of a falling tree as it

dies from the fatal wound

of  the Chainsaw.

The whispering Ghosts  of the forest have

become overwhelmed by the

cacophony

of Suburban and Urban myths.

Of speed and sound

— faster, louder —

more, More, MORE…!

Be still and listen.

Look

and see the Ghosts of the

aboriginal forest.

Prehistory; pre-suburbia

when pace was slow; of purpose and meaning.

Only then the forest will yield its

ancient secrets.

Only then, the deaf will see and

the blind will hear.

Be still, be still my children —

the ancient forest will speak

from the heart and soul

of a mountain Lion.

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(“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it." ~Psalm24:1)

Copyright © 2009 M.E.Craver *All Rights Reserved*

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More about the "slow-motion clearcut" of Fromme Mountain, etc. can be found here. Homage to a "lost cause" - 

https://friendsofmountainviewparkwetland.blogspot.ca/