I, Orfeo X Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Artist Statement for the Ofeo series: Mary Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow? With Silverbells and Cockershells and Pretty Maids all in a row? I dream in the garden of our creation While sunlight burnishes the grass I kneel to caress the green streamers Soft as your long black hair And collect the stars hidden beneath You cast spells Because you can And at your will I breath Ke ao ke aloha i ka lani While you direct the winds As if you held the gourd of La’amaomao The garden is empty except for me But my songs fall like coins dropped from the skies They drape you in your silent mist in hues of lustrous orange and red And when I turned you said “Who?” As if you were Eurydice Show me loves place in the sky The weight of your beauty a cluster of suns While the wandering makani talk to the gods of time to let them keep you I cannot penetrate with any bright but saddened sounds But their lingering resonances are a caress…an alphabet of touches And I press the letter O to your not there lips While I feel only absence and sorrow, suspended in the clouds that thunder above Because of you, the brightest comet on a musical summer night, I bleed the color of a red hibiscus As your light moves over the distance In the Sunday morning dew I will be gone Mary Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow? I, Orfeo X was shot with a plastic Holga lens jerry-rigged to a Moment Telephoto lens then attached to the iPhone 6s Plus using Command Strips. The imagery was manipulated on the iPhone 6sPlus and iPhone 5S only. This project was shot with a plastic Holga lens jerry-rigged to a Moment Telephoto lens then attached to the iPhone 6s Plus using Command Strips. The imagery was manipulated on the iPhone only. The prints are archival pigment ink on Hähnemühle Photo Rag paper, mounted to cradled wood panel and then hand coated with several coats of encaustic medium.

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.5 D in

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