Resting Heroes
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Original Oil Painting on Belgian Linen
Framed
By Helen Norton
90 x 120 cm
1999 Second Test
RESTING HEROES
Oil on Belgium linen 90 x 120 cm 1999
The quilt is meant to portray the patchwork of the world. The many facets of ourselves, sewn together in absolute harmony of colour and form. So different but so much the same. Each colour resounding off the one next to it. Not needing to be separate, not needing to isolate culture. A collaboration of what we are from the perspective of our basic human needs and desires and feelings. The hero’s rest beneath this overlay, tired from much work achieved.
A THOUSAND WINDOWS
Like the multifaceted crystal
Light shines from many directions
Off many planes
Onto your face.
And from within the place of the jewel
There are a thousand windows
To look out from
But the soul lies deep
In the center of the rock
Kept there for a million years there
Locked away
The rainbow will flow through
The eyes of the crystal
Outwards
Into the blue
To free the radiance
Of a beauty that belongs
To a deep heart.
The colours are the ones of our world
Placed beside each other in a palette
Of wonder
The pot of gold that sits at the rainbows end,
Sits at the beginning
Which end is which is only
A matter of opinion
As the gold sits where the rainbow
Touches down on the earth
This is the land we walk.
Norton ‘98
