– from a private collection
A commission to create an abstract portrait of a man’s lover with my style of art. Using notes about her, I made “Sofia” and wrote this poem to accompany the piece.
Sofia
A beautiful world in a beautiful girl.
A place where a ruby adorned butterfly beats her wings to the whimsical notes of a music box.
The music box plays next to a window of crimson treasure that is a shimmering sanguine sea of dreams.
Dreams where a golden castle awaits its ballerina princess.
She is strong and proud. She is poised with honor. But she is a slave to her passion and bound by love. The chains that hold her in place keep her safe and warm in the fires of his heart.
And these fires are orange sapphires sparkling in her eyes.
She is a cabinet of curiosities. A metallic rose encased in glass. A tiny tangerine flower resting within a tiny fancy frame. A pretty pair of delicate and intricate filigree scissors ready to cut in brilliance. A noble siamese cat. A flower whose petals have been plucked… He loves she, he loves she not… With the single petal remaining to express that he Does love… His heart is hers. It hangs in her cage. Surrounded by vintage light bulbs to always be lit with old memories and new adventures. The butterfly will forever flutter in this beautiful world and a marble of pretty colors swirling in an ocean of blue is the planet earth with Russia facing and reflecting the ballerina princess, her glorious castle, chains of passion, and all the magic of sofia’s soul.
By Ave Rose
February 2013