TABLET: improvisations with god

TABLET: 

improvisations with god

recent works on limestone, brick, dimension lumber and paper, set to piano improvisation of June 14, 2013 by American artist Alan Dyson

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tablet - improvisations with god

"Tablet" - improvisations with god 

I'm pleased to announce a collection of new work made from construction materials - limestone panels, brick, dimension lumber, and paper. Some materials, saved for years, bear the traffic marks of weather, vegetation, and mineral stains which I have responded to with watercolor, marker, and etching tools. The result is reminiscent of my daily piano improvisations - carefully, but randomly balanced, colorful and fun.
The signature piece of the show is a structure I am calling "Samuel's Ladder". It's a tower built like shoji screen panels - clad with photocopy enlargements of my father's hand-written sermon notes. It will be illuminated on the inside much like a Japanese lantern. The sermon, from Corinthians, and the limestone panels bearing the marks of nature are the inspiration for the title "Tablet".
This will be a collection of all new original works that I am really excited to share as it utilizes the materials of my profession as an architectural artist but feels like my musical meditations...only in stone, brick, and wood.

Bossier Arts Center
630 Barksdale Blvd
Bossier City, LA

May 3-31
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

http://www.bossierarts.blogspot.com/

http://www.shreveport.blogspot.com/2013/05/ladder-piece-of-soul-of-artist-alan.html

green lady, red lady, blue lady II

green lady, red lady, blue lady II

circa 1980

collection of deena and kim mitchell

live performance

an informal performance of poetry and song by

david love lewis

and

alan dyson

come as you are, bring what you wish, prepare to listen.

please rsvp.

 780-4454
salandyson@comcast.net

reflected light

reflected light

downtown shreveport

lost on texas

1544 Texas Ave.

Shreveport

hot nuts

"hot nuts"

southern maid donuts

hearne ave.

shreveport

alexandra's oval room

jazz player by baron de'callatay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHOIHzNKrY

alexandra's oval room
new orleans, louisiana
jan. 2011
piano improvisations
casa d'arte
shreveport, louisiana
april 2000

metaphor

metaphor

i used to dream

'enter here' d.e.X.a.d. 2010

i used to dream
original poetry by david love lewis
music and video by s. alan dyson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7xKLy4dFg

i used to dream

'til they swallowed me

long night stretches
cold and dark
in all directions.

from my station
at the top
of the ferris wheel
cars come silently
toward us.

metal boxes
shining away from us.

hold on tight.
don't fall out.

nodding out at work.
cold brought me back.

cold wind
that stops dreams
brings me back
to book.

david love lewis

"broken glass"

'glass house' - debbie buchanan engle (work in progress)

'broken glass' - poetry by david love lewis, music and performance by alan dyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOI7-YC0Krc&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=4jgrRwetI10

'broken glass"

i'm so glad your soul
belongs to jesus, lately your good manners
and much else have eluded me;
we promised no more nukes,
no more point-blank sights, but you
need to zero in, to wield the cerem0nial knife:
a feral child thrashing away with occam's razor.

that's why i had to get out
and see the world or at lest the plush
mamas on the other side of the street.
naked and forked, i forked my way
to the other side of lonely avenue;
sure all the time you saw me from
your lighted window and disapproved.

and when they left me bruised and bleeding,
as hungry for death as death in life can be,
you scolded and screamed and called me lost
and wrote me off.

by god's mercy i didn't die; step by step
on the muddy road back i called distance
from you a good thing' a thick clot hearsay
poisoned what was left of your milk's kindness.

we had one more run in us, and made it;
pilgrims dazzled with our brilliant runs---
fast eddie and calamaity jane dance in
quick time and promised each other more.
and if the songs stop now, i will be blamed,
pilloried in a sheet of fire for some real slight
or some imagined neglect: i have called too much
or not enough.

there's only one thing left i'd like to know---
can you still trip the lightning and catch
its glow in your clear smooth jar and hold
it up like a child, as surprised as anyone
with its brassy glow?

these others catch their fireflies and are satisfied;
and i would be too if i didn't know,
hadn't always known
better.

david love lewis

bronze heart I

bronze heart I completed 1998
cast bronze
4" x 4" x 1.5"

contact the artist;
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

photography by Scott Griffin

Church III

"Church III" completed 2008
digital media

Thanks, NASA.

Limited edition prints available.
Contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

Birth, Works, Ressurection

Birth


Works


Ressurection


Completed 1978
wood, nylon cord, lumber, telephone pole cross-ties

Photos by Pam Dabrowski

Limited edition digital prints available.
Contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454