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studio June 6, 2018. Red Hook Brooklyn, NYC, USA
The Bathers sequence is an ongoing inquiry into life before the fall....

Lost Coastlines

Packed and all eyes turned in, no one to see on the key. 
No one waving for me just the shoreline receding. 
Ticket in my hand and thinking wish I didn't hand it in. 
Cause who said sailing is fine? 
Leaving behind all the faces that I might replace if I tried on that long ride, 
Looking deep inside but I don't want to look so deep inside yet.
Sit down, sit down on the proud wave bye, 
There might not be another star, farther on the line. 
Look out, look out at each town that glides by, 
And there's another crowd, to drown in crying eyes. 
And see how that light you love now just won't shine, 
There might just be another star, that's high and far in some other sky.
We sing, is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that set 
And decide what a dance might mean to it. 
Ruining the place where the ensuing melee escape. 
We packed up all of our bags the ship's deck now sags 
From the weight of our tracks as we pace beneath flags 
Black and battered rattling our swords in service of some fated, foreign, war.
We sail out on order of him 
But we find that the maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines. 
Where nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlined 
And we don't recognize the names upon strange signs.
And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and wide, 
Well we have lost our way, nobody's gonna say it outright. 
Just go
-Will Robinson Sheff
The Bathers sequence is an ongoing inquiry into life before the fall....

Lost Coastlines

Packed and all eyes turned in, no one to see on the key. 
No one waving for me just the shoreline receding. 
Ticket in my hand and thinking wish I didn't hand it in. 
Cause who said sailing is fine? 
Leaving behind all the faces that I might replace if I tried on that long ride, 
Looking deep inside but I don't want to look so deep inside yet.
Sit down, sit down on the proud wave bye, 
There might not be another star, farther on the line. 
Look out, look out at each town that glides by, 
And there's another crowd, to drown in crying eyes. 
And see how that light you love now just won't shine, 
There might just be another star, that's high and far in some other sky.
We sing, is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that set 
And decide what a dance might mean to it. 
Ruining the place where the ensuing melee escape. 
We packed up all of our bags the ship's deck now sags 
From the weight of our tracks as we pace beneath flags 
Black and battered rattling our swords in service of some fated, foreign, war.
We sail out on order of him 
But we find that the maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines. 
Where nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlined 
And we don't recognize the names upon strange signs.
And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and wide, 
Well we have lost our way, nobody's gonna say it outright. 
Just go
-Will Robinson Sheff
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Bathers; Marionette Painting

Shelton Walsmith

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 12 W x 16 H x 1 D in

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The Bathers sequence is an ongoing inquiry into life before the fall.... Lost Coastlines Packed and all eyes turned in, no one to see on the key. No one waving for me just the shoreline receding. Ticket in my hand and thinking wish I didn't hand it in. Cause who said sailing is fine? Leaving behind all the faces that I might replace if I tried on that long ride, Looking deep inside but I don't want to look so deep inside yet. Sit down, sit down on the proud wave bye, There might not be another star, farther on the line. Look out, look out at each town that glides by, And there's another crowd, to drown in crying eyes. And see how that light you love now just won't shine, There might just be another star, that's high and far in some other sky. We sing, is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that set And decide what a dance might mean to it. Ruining the place where the ensuing melee escape. We packed up all of our bags the ship's deck now sags From the weight of our tracks as we pace beneath flags Black and battered rattling our swords in service of some fated, foreign, war. We sail out on order of him But we find that the maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines. Where nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlined And we don't recognize the names upon strange signs. And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and wide, Well we have lost our way, nobody's gonna say it outright. Just go -Will Robinson Sheff

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:12 W x 16 H x 1 D in

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"Despite strident efforts to paint the smallness of birds monuments persist. " website: www.sheltonwalsmith.com Published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Denver Quarterly, Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others. Exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin. His most recent one man shows was at Seven Minus Seven Gallery In the US Virgin Islands. Personal interests; weather patterns, the inner life of trees, limes, irrationality, filigreed space, tequila, the middle ages, muay thai boxing, kittens, puppies, red wine, French New Wave cinema, sharp knives, lengths of twine rolled into balls for kittens to rut and nuzzle, cowboy britches, comedy jokes, rosemary short bread, blue moons, red squares, purple rain, carrot juice, my bidet, interiors, monumentality, audit remediation, the direction up. profile pic: Self portrait holding Autumnal Brutalist collage January 26, 2022

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