Exposure. letting in and giving deeper sharing.
Being seen beyond the facade
beyond the derma graphics
of life lived in technicolor
from story land
It’s all about the story in
the real and unreality
all tied together in layers
beyond the needled art.
The canvas fills up with
decades etched in spoken
passages, poetics of colored
symbols lay in silence
Some waking up to be shared
Most, a mystery to passerby’s
and the Unawakened wonder
in the Why of it
The visual drama spawns
the curious, invites the brave
in for a closer view, pushes
away the fearful.
Adornment is like that
better found in a circus
or a museum, or in a cloister
off to the side being artists
Where safety lies in the
over here just far enough away
to stare and imagine what
lives under that skin