My Early Paintings: TEMPEST and OLD STONE HOUSE

My Early Paintings 

TEMPEST and OLD STONE HOUSE

Dr Abe V Rotor

1 - Tempest

"Rage, rage, rage, on thy cold grey stones, O sea."*

  a line I memorized in high school many years ago,

  rising from tumultuous childhood, to what I'd be;

  not "to go gentle into that good night,"as others do.

*A mix of two classic poems that look out at the ocean and fight against the inevitable: "Break, Break, Break" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.

"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the 

same person who walked in." — Haruki Murakami

 

 Tempest in oil by AV Rotor 1969 (28" x 38" less frame)

2 - Old Stone House

"Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!" - Mehmet Murat İldan (Turkish novelist and playwright)

The old stone house where I was born,

and through childhood grew;

 sweet memories treasured in old age,  

      into sweet, nostalgic view. - avr

 

Old Stone House in oil by AV Rotor 1970

 (28" x 38" less frame)

"Its walls were thick and stood solid

in the midst of the world.

The house became home to those

who dwelled within its walls.

A gathering place of friends,

a resting place for strangers.

It sent out its family

to build other houses into homes."

- Excerpt from The Old Stone House by Vernon Snider 

and Grant Snider from Internet. ~