Catherine L. Johnson
LOTUS20TEN:
YOURVOICEISMYLULLABY+LOTUSBLOOM
X
For further information, please click:
https://catherineljohnson.art/2021/02/21/lotus-a-cycle-of-sixteen-works-2010/
X
X
X
28″ H x 22″ W
Mixed media on board
2010
Please click twice on image to enlarge.
“ThoU and I/I and ThoU”
Come to me with your coal and diamonds:
with your armor and secrets;
with your sweet water;
with the vast blue sky in your mouth and ear;
with your worn and eternal humanity; and
with your desire to open your blood
to love.
Come to me with your root and veins:
in mud and debris;
in fear and bitterness;
in uncertainty and tears;
in shreds and shame; and
in belief and faith
to love.
Come to me with your hands open:
to breathe;
to fall;
to rise;
to break open; and
to speak and sing
to love.
Come to me with touch and a soft candle:
for no language;
for music;
for unbound universes;
for unmade bed cathedrals; and
for joy
to love.
Come to me to release the divinity:
of all the colors and tastes and sounds of true blue;
of once excruciating scars;
now of nourishing and unspeakable sex;
of gentle caress; and
of being found
to love.
As a gospel song of freedom,
I will respond the same
for you.
To, for and with love.
Catherine L. Johnson
24 June 2010
The LOTUS 20TEN portfolio:
a cycle of sixteen works created
during the summer of 2010.
A portfolio, suites, of the five senses.
SensUal/SensUous
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 
Leave a Reply