BYRON SHEN // SKIATOOK, OK Your Eyes Close with My Dreams - 2016, oil on canvas, 24" x 48" Currently, my work has been based upon a dialogue with poetry and painting. My undergraduate studies were in English with a focus on creative writing while my graduate studies were in painting and drawing. Using poems by famous poets like Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, etc. as a departure point, I allow my intuition to take over while feeling the rhythms and images that the poems form in my being. Writing parts of the poems and having the text sit upon and show through the paint allows for a call and response interaction between the mediums of poetry and painting.
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