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MICHELLE HENRY
ELEMENTAL
2021 - 2022
Elemental refers to the basics, the fundamentals, the things that are just always there. I painted lemon blossoms because they were in bloom on the small tree in a pot in our front yard while we were in lockdown and they were a small source of joy in an otherwise very bleak time. The titles are from three different poems about lemons. "Lemon Blossom" by Elisa Maria Argiro, "The Lemon" by Eugenio Montale and "A Lemon" by Pablo Neruda. Click here for a link to the poems.
 Fragrance was her forte and she wore it welloil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm |  this unfathomable longingoil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm |
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 She stayed close to youoil on board 30 x 30cm |  your knees weakened and all you could say was Yesoil on board 30 x 30cm |
 you are all I could ever wantoil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm |  loving life with every exquisite inclinationoil on board 30.5 x 30.5cm |
 Out of lemon flowers loosed on the moonlight,charcoal on 300gsm paper 30 x 21cm |  love's lashed and insatiable essencesoil on primed 300gsm paper 30 x 21cm |
 this smell that can't divorce itself from the earthoil on primed 300gsm paper 30 x 21cm |  rains a restless sweetness on the heartoil on primed 300gsm paper 30 x 21cm |
 The war of troubled passions calls a truceoil on primed 300gsm paper 30 x 21cm |  the gold of the universe wellsoil on 240gsm oil sketch paper 86 x 61cm |
 a cup yellow with miraclesoil on 240gsm oil sketch paper 55 x 80cm |  a breast and a nipple perfuming the earthoil on 240gsm oil sketch paper 55 x 80cm |
 the diminutive fire of a planetoil on board 45.7 x 60.9cm |
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