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Pine Tree: Moon RAPTURES 2010

The paintings are beautiful, wild poems within a winter day, promising snow and pure light.

Rene Marie with Jeremy Pelt: SHENANDOAH
Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmogv8jes00&NR=1
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PpzeJJiTXk&feature=related


Rene Marie with Jeremy Pelt: JUST MY IMAGINATION
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=10WyOp7r8W4&feature=related
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jKZaGDm8w&feature=related



Esperanza Spalding with Chamber Society: http://www.usatoday.com/video/index.htm?bctid=759185745001&csp=ipmpv#/Esperanza+Spalding/759185745001


Body and Soul

Freddie Hubbard (be(yond)autiful): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IicJ-WY7V90

Chet Baker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MY1215povM

Chu Berry and Roy Eldridge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lor80WUVbtw


Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHm35v1akLI


Esperanza Spalding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15M62OtLrBQ


Thelonious Monk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=29J0Qsp3yns&feature=related
Billie Holiday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcppf61OoM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5tmdKjMRU


After five years, after Pine Tree: HOPE 2005,
I have created Pine Tree: Moon RAPTURES 2010.

Original paintings on board: 7.5"H x 5.5"W
A collection of 16 separate works.
Each painting is its own experience and song,


They are beautiful, wild poems within a winter day, promising snow and pure light,

They are my re-writing, re-titling, and my re-life from re-cent re-velations...


The poem below accompanies the visual lyrics:

HurricaneRAPTURElantern

I am centrifugal force-
a wild poem,
a day break,
a pine tree deep
in a delicate forest,
a blue wave, always
coming to
shore, a graceful
luminosity.


My body
needs
a feast
of your touch.

Gentle.

Hurricane

I am a spiral
of breath,
of fiercely
whirling roses-
of unfolding red
fire of kissed
whispers.

My body
needs
a wash
of your sound.

Quietly.

Hurricane.

I am a swinging rhythm-
a dance,
without a band,
a gospel,
without a church,
an intimate song
singing
your name
without regret.

My body
needs
a bath
of your scent.

Caressing.

Hurricane.

You are
my hurricane
lamp, my
love, you
keep my
light, my rose, my
desire, my heart, my
sweet, my love, my
soul, my touch, my
sight, my sound, my
taste, my integrity, my
naked, my grace within
your kind,
pure, clear
sphere of strong
love.

This is beauty.
This is vulnerable.

Hurricane

You are my full
moon, my torch,
my swoon, my
lilt, always
my lullaby.
In the night,
with your breath,
you shape the
sound of
my name
searching for
my open touch, my
kiss, my wild poem
on your side.
Always.

This is truth.
This is sheer.

My love
is a
lantern,
a hurricane
lamp.

My love
is a
lantern,
a hurricane
lamp.

Catherine L. Johnson

6 December 2010



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Robert Cohanim, dedicated collector and owner of Historical Remedies, wrote:Your poem reminds me of whirling dervishes in the rapture of godlove. Amen! I'm sorry for the physical distress you've been in, Catherine. It must be woven into your emotional upheavals. "Pine Tree: Moon Raptures" is so evocative...

Artist

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Resurrection (The Holtkotter Project) 1996
My Mother's Garden 1997 and 2006
Breath 1997
Pine Tree: An Appeal to Heaven 1998
Pure River 1999
Pure River Triptych 1999
11 September 2001- one of four original works
Pine Tree: Te Deum 2002
The Matteson Suites: Wilderness Songs 2002 #1
Halo: The Prayer Wheel 2003
Waterfall 2003-2004 #1
Waterfall 2003-2004 #2
Florals/Bloom Series 2004- present
Pine Tree: INFINITY 2004
HEARTFIRE triptych
Pine Tree: HOPE 2005
The Gold River 2006 #1
BEHOLD: Laurel 2006 #1
The Chandelier Drawings 2006 #1
The Chandelier Drawings 2006 #4
The Chandelier Drawings 2006 #8
Halo: Circle (black on red) 2007
Halo: Circle 2007
IRIS: Ocean 2007
Touchstone: The Water Chants 2007-08
Mercy Mercy Mercy Drawings #7 2008
Mercy Mercy Mercy Drawings #8 2008
Tabula Rasa: The Dance Suites triptych 2008
CRaDLE. WiNG. ShiP. 2009 #2
Crescent. Water. Moon. 2009 #1
Break: OPEN 2009 triptych - Panel I
Break: OPEN 2009 triptych - Panel II
Break: OPEN 2009 triptych - Panel III
LOVE LOVE LOVE FEAR 2009
LEAVE ME NOW #12 2009
RISE ME #6 2009
MILK + HONEY #1 2009
PRIVATE RHYTHM: BEAUTIFUL FORTITUDE 2009
PRIVATE RHYTHM: BEAUTY IS DIVINE IS BEAUTY 2009
PRIVATE RHYTHM: TOUCH 2009
PRIVATE RHYTHM: YOUREXHALEMYINHALEYOUR 2009
PRIVATE RHYTHM: MY THROAT SINGING YOU 2009
PRIVATE RHYTHM: MOVING GRACE 2009
Calvin Charles Gallery Show Announcement
PRIVATE RHYTHM opening Calvin Charles Gallery 14 January Twenty Ten
SPARROW #1 2010
SPARROW #8 2010
SPARROW #9 2010
SPARROW FLY HAPPY FLY 20TEN Pinocchio's story
NEST: THERE IS MORE FOR YOU #1 2010
NEST: FOR YOU THERE IS HEAVENLY BLISS AND SONG #2
NEST: FOR YOU MY GIFT IS NOT HIDING FOR ME #6 2010
NEST: FOR YOU SLOWLY COME NEAR MY HEART FOR ME #7 2010
NEST: THE MORNING LIGHT FINDS YOU BEAUTIFUL THERE #8 2010
NEST: FOR YOU A LULLABY #9 2010
NEST: FOR YOU MY TRUTH IS MY WING FOR ME #10 2010
MISSISSIPPI RIVER CHALLENGE 20TEN PADDLER'S PREMIUM SPARROW 2010 PRINTS
ST. PAUL'S SPRING ART CRAWL 23-25 APRIL 2010
ARTISTBREATHINGWINGS
LOTUS 20TEN, a cycle of sixteen works
UNVEIL truth/TRUTH unveil
BLACKBIRD: WING 20TEN
AT NIGHT I FEEL YOUR WINGS MAJESTY BLACKBIRD: WING 20TEN
RISING I BELIEVE IN YOU YOU ARE NOT FALLING YOU ARE RISING YOU ARE RISING RISING RISING 20TEN
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