Life is Art is Life

A canvas straitjacket

Coated in gesso

Rendered loosely without form

‘Tis modern art, I guess so…

Where does it come from?

Artist’s compulsion

Helpless to our obsession

To counter life’s revulsion

Maximum medium

Applied with abandon

Is it art or isn’t it?

Eternal the conundrum

What is the meaning?

Art’s prerogative

To know all and to know nothing

Is how artists choose to live

Smothered in brushstrokes

Drowning in colour

May I die so artfully?

Shout YES! I’d choose no other!