Artwork Description
Marietta Patricia Leis – Seed 27
Dimensions: 59 x 47 x 2.25″
Year:
Medium: oil, wood, gold leaf
Marietta Patricia Leis is an internationally exhibiting multimedia artist & poet. Originally from New Jersey USA, she has lived & worked in New York City as well as Los Angeles, & is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Leis’ reductive, expressive visual practice is shaped out of experiments in material process & takes inspiration from the forms of nature, sense of place & the internal landscape
Look beyond the concrete and black top
Unlock your memories
and look to the original world
See GREEN the vibrant color
of Earth still living
in generous abundance
Trees and plants in silence grow
bringing forth their splendor
for our wordless wonder
We linger with you amongst Earth’s soil
not wanting to be apart
from your green caress
But careless not seeing
the bounty brought forth
has estranged us
Shall we not know the earth
for we are tree and fruit
and vegetable ourselves
Are we divorced from our family
unconnected, orphaned and lost
with limbs torn off
Where will sustenance
and refuge come
without the mother of green hair and dress