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| #1692 "The Darkest Hour". Original refractured acrylic painting on wraparound panel about 2" deep. 40"x30". $1,200.
The following Shakespearean sonnet is written for and painted into the painting: | |
| They say the darkest hour's before the dawn | |
| yet that's the separate hour the Romans knew | |
| was set aside, not day or night, but one | |
| where sun starts blotting stars, the sky deep blue. | |
| Mariners raise their sextant to navigate | |
| celestial markers against the ocean's bounds. | |
| Those who know the beauty of dawn just wait | |
| for when that first morsel of light surrounds | |
| their place on earth. The planet turns this side | |
| to day. Sky scatters a smudge of spectrum's rays, | |
| paints canvas with deep hues, tomorrow's guide | |
| bespeckled with clouds, an artwork to amaze. | |
| This hour is not the darkest, it will stun | |
| those who will rise an hour before the sun. | |
