Poem 'He' & Painting

        

Painting ‘Untitled’; I.G.

  

He

Time passes by me.

What it is traitorous times season!

Yesterday the sun purred, but today – the winter…

Laughers sounds he passes trough me

Without feeling soft Spring fragility!

Heart? Who asked her? Unfortunately –  no!

The heart with blood aches sharply

Without the possibility to have the right to live.

Ieva Gudonyte

30.11.2016 – 01.12.2016It covers by blood sharply aching

Without possibility to have the right to live.

Skambiu juoku jis per mane praeina

Pavasario trapaus švelnumo

Taip ir ...nepajautęs.

Drawing 'Philosphy of Time' & Albert Einstein

 Drawing ‘Philosophy of Time’; I.G.

‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.’

Albert Einstein

(1879 – 1955)

Craft Option. Broach 'Mozart Requiem' & Sophocles

Broach ‘Mozart Requiem’, textile medias; I.G.

‘One word frees us of all weight and pain of life:

That word is love’.

Sophocles

(498 C – 406 C)

Writing poem 'Green Chestnut' and Craft Option. Brooch 'Be On The Wing'

Brooch ‘Be on the Wing’, textile techniques; I.G.

Green Chestnut

Between my eyes and a green chestnut

Is built Ariadne’s thread:

The path is melted in the light, but direction remains.

If you weren’t the sun, I would come to you.

Ieva Gudonyte

 2016

Painting 'Swallow' & Anne Sexton

Painting and mix media ‘Swallow’; I.G. 

 The Balance Wheel

Where I waved at the sky

And waited your love through a February sleep,

I saw birds swinging in, watched them multiply

Into a tree, weaving on a branch, cradling a keep

In the arms of April sprung from the south to occupy

This slow lap of land, like cogs of some balance wheel.

I saw them build the air, with that motion birds feel.

Where I wave at the sky

And understand love, knowing our August heat,

I see birds pulling past the dim frosted thigh

Of Autumn, unlatched from the nest, and wing-beat

For the south, making their high dots across the sky,

Like beauty spots marking a perfect cheek.

I see them bend the air, slipping away, for what birds seek.

Anne Sexton

(1928 – 1974)

Illustration 'There Was An Old Man' by Edward Lear

Illustration ‘There was an old man’; I.G.

There was an old man who said, ‘Hush!

I perceive a young bird in this bush!’

When they said, ‘It is small?’

He replied ‘Not at all!

It is four times as big as the bush!’

Edward Lear

(1812 – 1888)

Painting 'It Is Hate' & Daniil Kharms

Painting ‘It is hate?’; I.G. 

This is how hunger begins:

The morning you wake, feeling lively,

Then begins the boredom;

Then comes the loss

Of the power of quick reason,

Then comes the calmness

And then begins the horror.

Daniil Kharms

(1905 – 1942)

Brooch 'Ladybird' & Frank Zappa

Brooch ‘Ladybird’; textile medias; I.G.

‘Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible’.

Frank Zappa

(1940 – 1993)

Painting, ink drawing 'Bloody Mary' & Grazvile Ieva Gudonyte

Painting, ink drawing, ‘Bloody Mary’; I.G.

 

‘When my heart stops, you will be the person, who

can understand the hidden meaning. ‘

 

Grazvile Ieva Gudonyte

(1971)

Illustration Mix Media & Alfonsas Nyka-Nyliunas

Illustration mix media, ‘Silence’; I.G.

‘If I die in the winter,

Open the window

For my soul to fly home

In the snow.’

Alfonsas Nyka-Nyliunas

(1919 – 2015)

Silver Earrings 'Grapes' & Socrates

Silver earrings ‘Grapes’, I.G.

‘The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing’

Socrates

(471 BC – 399 BC)

Illustration 'Getting Light?' & Lord Byron

Illustration ‘Getting Light?’ ; I.G.

‘(…) My dream is past; it had no further change.

It was of a strange order, that the doom

Of these two creatures should be thus traced out

Almost like a reality—the one

To end in madness—both in misery.’

Lord Byron, ‘The Dream’

(1788 – 1824)

Drawing 'Philosophy of Time' (3) & Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Drawing ‘Philosophy of Time’ (3); I.G.

‘Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large

Intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must,

I think, have great sadness on earth.’

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ‘Crime and Punishment’

(1821 – 1881) 

Craft Option. Knitted Coat 'Hug' & Gayle Froman

Knitted Coat ‘Hug’, I.G.

‘When the sun shines, you let it shine on you.’

Gayle Forman

(1970)

Writing Poem 'Untitled' & Acrylic Painting 'Life is Metaphor'

Acrylic painting ‘Life is Metaphor’, I.G.  

Untitled

The sun is setting, the wind orbits, stars are falling

To me lasts the longing shadow about him…,

who does not here…

2015

Craft Option. Brooch 'Berry Necklace' & M.K.Ciurlionis

 Brooch ‘Berry Necklace’, textile medias; I.G.

Love - it's a highway to the sun, based on

sharp diamonds to go barefoot.

Mykalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis

(1875 – 1911) 

Drawing 'Philosophy of Time' (2) & Joan Jett

Drawing ‘Philosophy of Time’ (2); I.G.

Life is strong and fragile. It’s a paradox… It’s both things,

like quantum physics: It’s a particle and a wave

 at the same time.  It all exists all together.

Joan Jett

(1958)

Painting 'Motives' & Hans Christian Anderson

Acrylic, gouache painting, ‘Motives’; I.G.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,

To gain all while you give,

To roam the roads of lands remote,

To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Anderson

(1805 – 1875)

Craft Option. Necklace 'Stairs' & Omar Khayyam

Necklace, textile medias; ‘Stairs’, I.G.

‘Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.’

Omar Khayyam

(1048 – 1131)

Made Screen Printing for Notebooks

Covers for notebooks, screen printing,  I.G.

       There are made screen printings for notebooks.

      First one illustration is from the series of ‘Siberia’ drawings. Bold, strict, abstract elements echoes human strength and power, rendered in black colour.  

       Second one represents more flower patterns (the mix of the red and green colours), that are blurred creating the illusion of softness within small decorated petal ornaments.

Drawing 'Philosophy of Time' & Nathaniel Hawthorne

Drawing ‘Philosophy of Time’ (1), I.G.

Times flies over us, but leaves its shadow

behind.  

Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804 – 1864)

Craft Option. Brooch 'Spring Songs' & Bhagavad Gita

Brooch ‘Spring Songs’, textile medias, I.G.

Only when a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others

as if they were his own, he has attained

the highest state of spiritual union.

Bhagavad Gita

(700 verse Hindu scripture in Sanskrit) 

Writing Poem 'Time' and Mix Media Drawing

Mix media drawing ‘’Where Our Brain Meets’’; I.G.

Time

She is nice and kind, as the source of water transparent

If you touch – drops on fingers melting

Every day blooming like flowers awakened Spring.

Her soul is naive, still young and girlish.

But in the face – marks of wrinkles

From passed away summers, felt snow,

From the multitude of lives,

Even more – survived deaths

The ghost of loneliness reflects timidly.

Discover her in a crowd between many people

Not knowing a name, face and city.

Usually she does not pronounce: ‘’I am… you!’’

She is so! ... She - proud ... She is ... weak by waiting

It flows freely through you as by stars ornamented

T i m e.

2016

Paintings 'Jerry Hall' nonsense poem

Gouache painting, black ink drawing ‘’Jerry Hall’’; version 1; I.G. 

Nonsense Poem

Jerry Hall

Jerry Hall, he was so small,

A rat could eat him, a hat and all.

Gouache painting ‘’Jerry Hall’’; version 2; I.G.

Gouache painting ‘’Jerry Hall’’; version 3; I.G.

Craft Option. Necklace ''Sea Corals'' & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Necklace ‘‘Sea Corals’’; artificial pearls, 

natural stones, silver; I.G.  

  

My soul is full of longing

For the secret of the sea,

And the heart of the great ocean

Sends a thrilling pulse through me.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807 – 1882)

Painting 'Heaven Gardens' & Thomas More

Acrylic, gouache painting ‘Heaven Gardens’. I.G.

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry,

of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make

the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive

in the absence of a garden.

If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if

 you are not human; you don't have a soul.” 

Thomas More

(1478 – 1535)

Craft Option. Broach 'Summer Day' & Bill Moyers

Broach ‘Summer Day’; textile medias, decoupage, I.G. 

When I learn something new - and it happens 

every day - I feel a little more at home 

in this universe, a little more comfortable

in the nest.

Bill Moyers