Musings from my visit to the ASU Art Museum today :)

There is a painting, oil on canvas, Jacqueline Brito (b. 1973), 1996:
"ETATIS.SUA.XX (Made when I was 20 years old).

Was it made when she was 20 years old?
Or was it born when she was
twenty years old.

A ship sails to the horizon
veering sharply toward the sun
A setting sun
Chased by wind-filled masts three
And the clouds pay homage
to the last days of youth.

The sun has spawned a golden trail
sparkling in the waters
Sharply juxtaposed by the ship's inky wake.

The water bleeds down across the canvas
ETATIS.SUE.XX. It cries, it laments
And the ship of dreamers sails on
to the setting sun.

Jose Toirac, "Untitled" from "Series Gris"

Amidst the fog of swirling grey
the mess of smoke
the choking banality of
color withdrawal
Is only the vague impression
of a man
And his cigar.