At George School, we enjoy celebrating the varied talents of our students. We asked one of our GS Ambassadors, Jake Kind ’16, to share some of his artwork.
The Collage of Persephone
Jake Kind ’16
“The Prayer of Persephone”
Daughter of garden,
sunken in mud,
let thy gravity uphold
the ignorance of our greed,
let the inopportune hedge
guide our bodies to the
cliff of the river
so that our memories,
a grouping of elements
that irreversibly corrects
the anticipatory fathoms of our petals,
darken to the sightings of our
underworld,
which in turn,
melts our seeds until the
hummingbirds and their feathers
wither
and our vivacious bottlenecked scars
dissipate.
And let us say
condemn.
The medium used to create the piece was pen and ink on printer paper. Talking about art can be awkward. But George School comforts my awkward cloak and aids me in my explanation of the analysis that delves into the diluted contrast of the lines which corresponds to the upward and downward motions that irreversibly create the forms that command the piece. Oh, and just a side note – I never “predraw” with pencil.
All about that impulse penmanship.
