This is a delightful interview. Steve Smart’s poetry interspersed and guiding is a lovely touch. Thank you for writing and evoking such feeling in the reader of the artists power and desire to bring love into this world.
Sean, these lines: “christened with the possibility of rest” and the underlying contemplation of worthiness, combined with the next poem- the boy, the dancer external/internal/accepted. Both of these poems speak deeply to me. Thank you for sharing them. I’ll spend some time over the next few days diving into your other work. With gratitude 🙏🏽.
Thank you Sean, @Claire Beynon and @Steve Smart continue to inspire me and guide my own creative practice. Thank you for you attentive reading, and for your own beautiful words and imagery. I’m moved by your idea that together, writing poetry, making art we can increase the sounds of peace.
Kirstie, thank you. Goosebumps on your arm and also on mine. John Brock again, always supportive, insistently present. "touch at a remove calling,' as Steve Smart says. And the 'heart-cry' of Claire's work. Thank you for putting this out into the world. The intricacy of the connections. Each thread in conversation with every other thread, which of course is the conversation that Claire is immersed in and offers to us for our own immersions. Words are inadequate. Except, as Steve demonstrates, as art. The oblique approach to the mystery. One of the many things that stuns me about what your piece suggests, is that this holds clues to how much we misunderstand. These connections as simply the way the fabric of the universe works. And we (or certainly, I) hardly notice. And so, dumbstruck. Awed. Heartfelt thanks to you, Claire, Steve, John Brock, and the other humans, trees and artworks that meet us here.
Carolyn, thank you. Yes, as I read your comment, that is really, exactly how I felt, talking with Claire Beynon and spending time with her art and John Brock's, to quote you: 'clues to how much we misunderstand,' and the 'oblique approach to the mystery,' and the necessary and not-there inadequacy of words to hold it all; and yet your comment has grasped it, and so maybe words get us a little closer. Touching the membrane of the past was very much there for me, the sense, as Ekhart Tolle and other great minds insist: that there is no time. Claire Beynon, in using code, image and intentional healing mediums expresses the cellular and soul cries for peace that we feel, but the blank bareness of words seldom express. Her art brings colour, texture and form that words just don't have access too. I'm thinking about light too, how on a particular day the angle of the sun brings out attention to something we haven't seen before, and how this is the shifting medium stained-glass works with, and how awe, hope and love nestle in these moments of illumination.
Thank you for your attentive reading: this is a great gift, to be able to have this conversation with you, to have a mind such as yours, with such capacity inhabiting the page. With gratitude, Kirstie.
Sorry, I forgot to answer your query about frequency of posts. I prefer once a month. There's so much in each piece, and I like to take my slow time to absorb and ponder. Monthly is plenty often enough for engagement. For me anyway. Maybe other wee titbits as the mood takes you, if the mood takes you, but fine if it doesn't.
Thank you Carolyn, your reply helps me settle my own answer to this question, and mirrors feedback from other readers I've spoken with. Once a month works best for my practice, moving from idea and question to form takes time. Also, there is much asking for our attention, a monthly post seems more restful somehow, allowing for quiet space between.
This is a delightful interview. Steve Smart’s poetry interspersed and guiding is a lovely touch. Thank you for writing and evoking such feeling in the reader of the artists power and desire to bring love into this world.
Also I wondered - is there a place I can read some of your own poetry?
There is. I have two poem published here: https://midatlanticreview.com/2023/09/two-poems-by-sean-felix/ You can also go to my website, which is primarily involving my first chapbook about Paris, but has two poems in video: https://sean-felix.com/
Sean, these lines: “christened with the possibility of rest” and the underlying contemplation of worthiness, combined with the next poem- the boy, the dancer external/internal/accepted. Both of these poems speak deeply to me. Thank you for sharing them. I’ll spend some time over the next few days diving into your other work. With gratitude 🙏🏽.
Thank you for reading them. I’m glad you connected with them.
Thank you.
Thank you Sean, @Claire Beynon and @Steve Smart continue to inspire me and guide my own creative practice. Thank you for you attentive reading, and for your own beautiful words and imagery. I’m moved by your idea that together, writing poetry, making art we can increase the sounds of peace.
Kirstie, thank you. Goosebumps on your arm and also on mine. John Brock again, always supportive, insistently present. "touch at a remove calling,' as Steve Smart says. And the 'heart-cry' of Claire's work. Thank you for putting this out into the world. The intricacy of the connections. Each thread in conversation with every other thread, which of course is the conversation that Claire is immersed in and offers to us for our own immersions. Words are inadequate. Except, as Steve demonstrates, as art. The oblique approach to the mystery. One of the many things that stuns me about what your piece suggests, is that this holds clues to how much we misunderstand. These connections as simply the way the fabric of the universe works. And we (or certainly, I) hardly notice. And so, dumbstruck. Awed. Heartfelt thanks to you, Claire, Steve, John Brock, and the other humans, trees and artworks that meet us here.
Carolyn, thank you. Yes, as I read your comment, that is really, exactly how I felt, talking with Claire Beynon and spending time with her art and John Brock's, to quote you: 'clues to how much we misunderstand,' and the 'oblique approach to the mystery,' and the necessary and not-there inadequacy of words to hold it all; and yet your comment has grasped it, and so maybe words get us a little closer. Touching the membrane of the past was very much there for me, the sense, as Ekhart Tolle and other great minds insist: that there is no time. Claire Beynon, in using code, image and intentional healing mediums expresses the cellular and soul cries for peace that we feel, but the blank bareness of words seldom express. Her art brings colour, texture and form that words just don't have access too. I'm thinking about light too, how on a particular day the angle of the sun brings out attention to something we haven't seen before, and how this is the shifting medium stained-glass works with, and how awe, hope and love nestle in these moments of illumination.
Thank you for your attentive reading: this is a great gift, to be able to have this conversation with you, to have a mind such as yours, with such capacity inhabiting the page. With gratitude, Kirstie.
Sorry, I forgot to answer your query about frequency of posts. I prefer once a month. There's so much in each piece, and I like to take my slow time to absorb and ponder. Monthly is plenty often enough for engagement. For me anyway. Maybe other wee titbits as the mood takes you, if the mood takes you, but fine if it doesn't.
Thank you Carolyn, your reply helps me settle my own answer to this question, and mirrors feedback from other readers I've spoken with. Once a month works best for my practice, moving from idea and question to form takes time. Also, there is much asking for our attention, a monthly post seems more restful somehow, allowing for quiet space between.