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Standing high on the bluff
rising over Stonewall Beach
on the island of Martha’s Vineyard
where centuries of wind and waves
have been chiseling the shoreline back
further with each blow
after stormy blow
Where generations of Langmuir hands
have moved that dotted line of great white rocks signaling safety in the moonlight
pulling them back and then
further back again
On that grassy sandy ledge
that has listened to my heart
taken the measure of my Muses
rounded off my edges
and holds all I know of love
Here on this edge
of all that I hold sacred
I plant my soul
holding tightly to my flags
and signaling HOME.
I am home.
To Frances McGuire, each painting is a palimpsest of emotion—but not necessarily narrative—expressed without judgment or expectation. The visual equivalent of, “I’m just saying.”
Thomas Hart Benton on his self-portrait: “This is a study from the mirror images of an old artist, ‘Grandaddy Benton,’ as all the kids call me. I had a belly when I did it, but after building a stone retaining wall, 65 feet long and in some places 10 feet high, on our place in Martha's Vineyard, I got rid of it. It hasn't come back.”
It’s about finding oneself in the right place at the right time. With a camera.
In this thoughtful new documentary, filmmakers David and Barbarella Fokos, explores the farm and studio of Island painter Allen Whiting.
