John Luna

At the bottom of the painting, write any word (for instance, “mother.”) Now wait for more words, more names, for requests or invocations, to fill the perimeter of the frame. As in nebulous blooms of mold that featured, like repeats …

Figures walking toward you in the fog look like they are here to conduct an intervention. Trees (birch – poplar – ash?), noughts and crosses of dusty dusk, stacked up (thank you Klimt, for birches as a forest of upright, …