Bruce MacGibeny rarely painted from life — that is, using models — but he always painted about life. As he wrote in an essay on figurative painting, “The meaning of life is the subject of art.”
His images, whether visual or verbal, came from his expansive imagination and emotions. The poem “Imagination” describes what it was like to be him, faced with a fresh canvas or blank piece of paper or block of clay.
Imagination
The blank wall
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Had everything
On it.
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On it on it on it
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World war three
A lovely maiden
The Pacific Ocean
A football team
A football
A foot fall
A Thumbprint
A Waltz
Four convicts
Automobiles
Lightning
A guitar
Shoes
Tension
Fear
There
Here
Everywhere
A
Totally
Blank
Stare.
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And yet . . . . .
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Blank.
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But
Far
From
Empty.
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The artist’s website, MacGibeny.com, has been updated with new images of his artwork. Please visit MacGibeny.com in the future for more information about his work and life.
Poem copyright 2011. All rights reserved.
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