Regionalistic Gothicisms – Monochromes in a Colourful Mind

Through sepia tinted lenses, they see

vistas of greens and golds and blues

stretching out like promises

of a world beyond the frame.

Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth

painters of the regional scene

sifting through the dirt and dust

to find the essence of the land.

They stare at the world with a hawk’s eye

peering at the smallest details

of oddness and eccentricity

that make each place unique.

They capture the wrinkles on a face

the curve of a fence post

the way light falls through a window

and transforms a room.

They listen to the voices of the earth

the rustle of the cornfields

the chirp of crickets in the night

the creak of a screen door.

They paint with a steady hand

crafting an image of the land

that is both familiar and strange

both of the world and beyond it.

Their art is a meditation

on the quiet corners of the heartland

on the people and places that define it

on the beauty that lies just beneath the surface.

Through sepia tinted lenses, they see

the world in all its glory

and bring it to life with every stroke

of their brushes and their pens.