Description
Poetry – three bands, one letter
Wall art rules the canvas into three vertical bands and gives each one a different hand: the left dark red and creased, the right gold and cut with incised signs, and between them a dark band running with white drops — abstract painting that reads as a page which is also a picture. The signs belong to no alphabet.
Technique and texture
The left band is built from a dense, pleated deposit rising into soft ridges. The gold band on the right is covered first and then cut into while still soft with a pointed tool, so its marks are taken away rather than added. The white lines down the middle were released to run, and they break into drops on the way.
The motif
On the left edge, a little below the middle, lies a gold half-round form with parallel ribs that behaves like a seal or a shell. The incised signs on the right are set in rows at even intervals, which is why the eye reads them as text even though they say nothing. The white drops on the dark band are spaced unevenly, like notes on a stave.
Setting and placement
There is enough small detail here to reward standing close, and very little to be had from across a room. Put it in a living room or a bedroom, somewhere you stop.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, pleated deposits, incised signs, running white lines
- Palette: deep red, black, gold, white
- Ideal for: living rooms, bedrooms, home offices
- Character: poetic, material, restrained
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Poetry: a square for a wall you stop at
Poetry is painted in 14 square sizes, from 40 x 40 to 180 x 180 cm. The signs cut into its gold band are small, so hang it where you stop and let it take roughly two thirds of the furniture beneath. Over a 200 cm sofa that is 130 x 130 cm, over a bed 160–180 cm wide 110 x 110 or 120 x 120 cm, above a 150 cm sideboard 100 x 100 cm, and on a hallway wall 50 x 50 or 60 x 60 cm.
If you choose YES under Stretcher, the canvas with its creased dark red band arrives stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. Poetry has no frame unless you add one in the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame. Delivery of Poetry takes 15–45 days. The signs in the gold band were incised with a point while the paint was soft, as the painting Poetry is hand-painted on canvas, not printed.
Poetry in brief
Which size of Poetry suits the wall above a bed?
Over a bed 160 cm wide choose 110 x 110 cm, over one 180 cm wide 120 x 120 cm, so the three bands sit over the middle of the headboard.
Does Poetry arrive ready to hang?
Yes, choose YES under Stretcher and the canvas with its red, dark and gold bands is stretched on a wooden stretcher before it ships.
Is a frame included with Poetry?
No, the frame is optional, the Frame menu starts at Without frame, and a frame can be matched to the gold band of signs.
Can I order Poetry in a square size that is not listed?
If none of the 14 sizes between 40 x 40 and 180 x 180 cm suits you, ask us about a painting made to order with the three bands of Poetry.
