Autumn Forest
Autumn Forest – Departure, October 2020, Acrylic on wood siding with copper metallic ink, 15”x33”x1”
’The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.’
from The Trees by Philip Larkin (1922-85)
Music: Abschied (Departure) from Waldszcenen (Forest Scenes) by Robert Schumann Op. 82, No. 9 in B-Flat Major.