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David Pope
 

Title of Work:     Ghost Fragment #4
Medium:             Acrylic, encaustic, and oil on wood art panel
Date Created:     2010

Waking in a fog I felt different, very different.  Something was wrong!  Suddenly, someone was telling me I didn’t look so well, that I appeared lost and confused.  I tried to clear my eyes, blinking rapidly, focusing, and trying to comprehend why a bird was speaking to me!  I saw the reflection of another bird in her eyes, reached out my arm and saw that I had wings.  Looking down I saw unfamiliar talons clutching to a wire high above the ground.  Nearly losing my balance I realized this bird was speaking to just another bird and I was welcomed and being offered empathy and understanding.  Feeling like a ghostly fragment of myself, I remembered ……how I always wanted to fly.


Title of Work:     Watson
Medium:             Acrylic, encaustic, and oil on wood art panel
Date Created:     2010

It was a long ride for a small child, laying in the back of a 1941 Crosley Station Wagon, listening to my father speak German to a man I didn’t know.  His job with the Food and Drug Administration took us many places, where I saw many things.  I eventually drifted to sleep that March night in 1943 while my father procured an approval for a new pain killer to be marketed in the states.  I awoke to my father calling my name, “Watson”; “Watson, come” he called.  Crawling into my father’s arms I began to wrestle, twist, and turn.  I began to wake on a hot summer night in August, 2009; my back aching from a recent injury.  As the above dream raced through my mind I remember that my father was born in the 1940’s, worked in graphic arts, had little knowledge of the German language, and no use for chemistry. 


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