Priestess, (Entering the Stillness). 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Painting and Haiku by Clinock
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
October 2019.
Accept mysteries
Open the stillness inside
Be one with your dreams
Market Day. 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Painting and Haiku by Clinock
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
October 2019.
walking the market
admiring flowers and fish
my love is busy
She is the dance of all the world’s oceans
She is the depth of mystery and the vibrating soul
She is the peeling back of all that is hidden
Full Moon Over Chapala
Luna Ilena Sobre Chapala by Clinock. 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. October 2019.
the music may be too loud,
there may be too many smiling teeth,
you may feel an uncontrollable madness in the night.
but do not fear the spinning lights,
the painted faces, the dizzying rides,
the smells and smoke and mirrors.
it’s only El Carnaval come to town
to break open the darkness,
summon the unexpected
and disrupt reality
briefly,
with magic.
Carnaval by Clinock. 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. October 2019.
Magician by Clinock. 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. October 2019.
“Making art isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us; a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.”
Pablo Picasso.
Lola and Smudge. 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper by Clinock.
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico in October 2019.
My Mexico paintings are influenced by my surreal and sensual experiences in this other culture that I have grown to love over many years of creative visits.
Lola and Smudge is the first of the Xochi Quetzal Chapala paintings that I will post until they are done.
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