NIGHT & DAY WORKS | 2015-6Arlene Kim Suda

NIGHT & DAY WORKS 2015-6The Canonical Hours Project

These works are an extension of a 2014-5 project inspired by a poem, The Canonical Hours, by W.H. Auden. They continue to explore sensations of time and place using color, movement and light. The larger canvases try to capture a feeling at specific times of the day:

1. Waking up (prime)2. 3PM (nones)3. Meeting of Night and Day (vespers)4. Falling Asleep (compline)5. Dreamtime (matins)

WAKING UP (PRIME) 2015acrylic on canvas, 64 x 48 inches

“Both light and shadow are the dance of love...”

- from a poem by Rumi

3PM (BEFORE OR AFTER THE STORM?) 2015acrylic on canvas, 62 x 45 inches

Isn’t it sometimes hard to tell the difference between the time the storm is about to hit and the time right after it has passed?

FALLING ASLEEP (COMPLINE) 2015acrylic on canvas, 64 x 48 inches

Feeling the weight of gravity and a sense of being lifted at the same time

DREAMTIME (MATINS) 2015acrylic on canvas, 64 x 57 inches

There is so much mystery in the night. A painting about the colors and shapes of the night is even a mystery to me -- truly like a dream.

NIGHT & DAY POEMS acrylic and pencil on paper, 12 x 8 inches

These are paper works I made inspired by poems I wrote while working on this series.

BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (VESPERS) 2015acrylic on canvas, 34 x 43 inches

In a lightness, a connection, a curiosity, a passion that inspires acreative, spiritual life

GIVING SUN (PRIME) 2015acrylic on canvas, 34 x 43 inches

The clarity and light of a giving sun at dawn One that brings life to all sustains our survival Nourishes the earthand world we know

D-MINOR/D-MAJOR 2016acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 inches

Kunming Lake, Summer Palace, Beijing, China, October 2015

Sunset after the storm at 1000 years lake. The title of this work is inpsired by these two preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff that I recently discovered:

Prelude in D Minor, Op. 23 No. 3Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 No. 4

MOON PHASES SKETCH 2015ink and pencil on paper, 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches

past, present, future

PAPER STUDIES I 2015acrylic and pencil on paper, 12 x 8 inches

light and shadoware the dance oflove

PAPER STUDIES II 2015acrylic and pencil on paper, 12 x 8 inches

before or after the storm?

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