Howard Wilson & Nancy Bruner Wilson
(USA)
visions
i see faces in blackened fire places
flowers in sealed linoleum
ships assail in clouds
reflections in puddles
shifting spirits in blowing leaves
mystery intrigue surrounds integrates
itself in all we are
see
feel
do
if we dare heed pay attention
accept receive
take in refuse to not believe
Nancy Bruner Wilson, The bon man
voices
voices voices voices
voices in the air
in the soft wind gentle voices
isten listen to the voices
voices whispering softly
whispering softly in the air
clear melodious gentle voices
voices in the air
trying vying for attention
wanting striving struggling
trying hard to be heard
to assist help lead
guide direct
to its words be true
listen listen listen
listen to the voices
listen strain train ears to hear
listen to what they’re
saying they will make the difference
everything life existence difficulties
better easier calmer
so i so we won’t go astray
voices in the air whispering
listen listen to the silent voices
filling permeating the wind the air
stop listen stop stop hear the messages
messages clear vibrating messages
voices listen to the strong wise
voices voices of those
who have gone ahead
angels hovering in the air
surrounding guiding
protecting strengthening
loud beckoning pleading voices
dare stop breathe deeply
listen hear pay attention
listen to their
celestial spiritual message
we’re never ever alone
in this hectic busy temporal world
hope love goodness peace compassion
always near to hold touch feel
voices voices
sweet sweet angelic
voices angel song singing
singing in the air
listen listen listen
voices singing
angel song
angel song everywhere in the air
Nancy Bruner Wilson, Artifacts
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BIO
Nancy Bruner Wilson’s background is in social work. She has degrees from Berea College in Kentucky and from The Tulane University Graduate School of Social Work in New Orleans. She worked for the American Red Cross which included a one year assignment with the 85th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, during the height of the war. She also worked for the New York City Department of Social Services in the South Bronx. Nancy is retired from the Kentucky Department of Social Services where she held various positions including work in a residential facility for status offenders and hearing officer for the department.
Nancy began writing five years ago to fulfill a lifelong desire. In 2012, she and her artist husband, Howard Wilson, released a Published in Heaven book titled breaking out. It is comprised of fifteen of her poems and his art work. Nancy’s poems have appeared in three Louisville publications: The Louisville Courier-Journal; The Highlander; and Uncut Candy. They have also been accepted for publication in: Advocate, PKA’s Publication; Bear Creek Haiku; Pearl Editions; The Poet’s Art; and Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature.
Nancy and her husband reside in a Victorian home in Louisville near Cave Hill Cementery.
Howard has had a life long involvement with the arts and crafts. He has experimented
with different techniques in a variety of mediums including clay, wood, print making and glass. Through the years his work has been shown and sold in galleries, museums, and art shows in the United States as well as abroad.
Metaphysical Expressionism Art: Howard Wilson’ s Artist Statement
Metaphysics versus aesthetics. Crossing liminal boundaries. Capturing fractaled peripherally visioned moments of experiences. Seeing those fleeting will of the wisp northern lights moments as I paint new works.
“They last a second, a minute, they come and go like a moving winking light: but they Have impressed their mark, deposited some kind of sensation before they vanished… Secret stirrings that go unnoticed to the remote parts of the mind, the incalculable chaos of impressions, the delicate life of the imagination seen under the magnifying glass; trackless journeyings by brain and heart, strange workings of the nerves, the whisper of the blood, the
entreaty of the bone, all the unconscious life of the soul.”
Knut Hamsun
Are thought and art one or separate? Thought comes first. Art, metaphysical expressionist art, is matrixed to thought by the desire the necessity of communication. Thought and metaphysical expressionist art are so closely linked they seem one but thought is Self, art is Other. Art is the shadow of thought. Internal art, interior monologue is then nearer, more closely matrixed to thought-closer to the source-than externally verbalized or painted art. Internal art is diaphanic. External art is adiaphanic. Can, does, the Artist Prophet take art through the diaphane? Yes! One way, and only one way, he does so is by removing artificial boundaries. Once the diaphanous boundary is crossed a different logic is enacted: the logic of hallucination, of the surreal, the art of dreams (not the same as aesthetics or the language of postmodern chaos). Is the stream of consciousness, free association, narrative metaphysical expressionist art as close as we can get to the expression of pure thought? Any form of art is slower than thought but one thing is certain: metaphysical expressionist art is a dark but beautiful cynosure for the blind cripple.
Howard Wilson with Ron Whitehead
August 9, 2012
Copyright © Howard Wilson and Ron Whitehead
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