Reflections

After reading Beaudelaire’s poem A Une Passant (To A Passerby) Glenda was inspired to paint a series of flowers.

It is a beautiful poem where a man sees a woman dressed in mourning walking down the street and is instantly mesmerized by and drawn to her sad beauty and he falls in love.

These paintings are about desire, fleeting beauty and wanting something that you can’t hold on to because of its very fleeting nature.

No one can hold onto euphoria, it exists in grief and unexpected moments, layered in pain and fear for its disappearance. Ironically it is that euphoric state, this heightened state of realism that she tried to capture in this series.

The poem - A Une Passante

"The deafening street roared on, Tall, slim and grand.

In mourning and majestic grief passed by.

A woman, lifting with a stately hand

And swaying the black borders of her gown;

Noble and swift, her leg with statue’s matching

I drank, convulsed, out of her pensive eye,

A bleak sky where hurricanes were hatching.

And the sweetness that mesmerizes, and the joy that makes one die.

A lightening flash - then darkness! Fleeting beauty

Whose look was my rebirth - a single glance!

Through endless time, shall I not meet with you again?

Far off! Too late! Or never! - I not knowing

Who you may be, nor you, where I am going -

You, whom I might have loved, you who know it too!

-Charles Beaudelaire."

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