Nature is Never Spent @ Meshuggah, June 2009

“Nature is Never Spent” is phrase taken from Gerard Manley Hopkins sonnet “God’s Grandeur,” which this exhibition attempts to evoke or intimate to some degree. Below are the both the poem and the pictures in the exhibition, which are listed alphabetically.

The exhibit is housed at the Meshuggah Cafe in the the University City Loop and will stay up for the month of June 2009. All photos are in frames purchased from thrift stores, and as such they may have minor imperfections. All frames are wood, except the frame for “Rust” which is some sort of plastic made to look like wood. All works are for sale and the prices are listed below each picture along with the dimensions of the frame. Please email me if you are interested in purcasing any framed print or copy of a print.

God’s Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

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Title: Ancient Rainbows
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 10.5″
Price: $25
Status: Available Sold

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Title: “And Wears Man’s Smudge”
Dimensions: 9.5″ x 11.5″
Price: $30
Status: Available Sold

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Title: Archetype
Dimensions: 10″ x 12″
Price: $35
Status: Available

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Title: The Clarity of Windows
Dimensions: 11″ x 11″
Price: $35
Status: Available Sold

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Title: “The Dearest Freshness, Deep Down Things”
Dimensions: 13″ x 16.5″
Price: $45
Status: Available

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Title: Dogwood Sunset
Dimensions: 11.5″ x 13.5″
Price: $45
Status: Available Sold

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Title: Enveloped by the Past
Dimensions: 11.5″ x 14.5″
Price: $50
Status: Available Sold

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Title: Fallen
Dimensions: 13″ x 15″
Price: $50
Status: Available

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Title: Fire Blossoms
Dimensions: 12″ x 14″
Price: $45
Status: Available Sold

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Title: The Grass of the Field
Dimensions: 12.5″ x 19″
Price: $50
Status: Available Sold

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Title: Grasses by the Lake
Dimensions: 21″ x 17″
Price: $60
Status: Available Sold

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Title: Ichabod
Dimensions: 16″ x 19.5″
Price: $60
Status: Available

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Title: Last Lights
Dimensions: 12″ x 15″
Price: $40
Status: Available Sold

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Title: Maple Seed Still Life
Dimensions: 10.5″ x 12.5″
Price: $45
Status: Available

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Title: Pull Tab, 2005
Dimensions: 10″ x 12″
Price: $30
Status: Available

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Title: Rust
Dimensions: 17.5″ x 21.5″
Price: $80
Status: Available

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Title: Shine
Dimensions: 13″ x 15″
Price: $25
Status: Available

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Title: Sunflowers for Vincent
Dimensions: 10.5″ x 13.5″
Price: $45
Status: Available

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