Carousel: white elephant Laurie Fox PESSEMIER Acrylic on linen 16 x 10.5
Carousel: the machine Blair Pessemier Acrylic on linen 10.5 x 16 inches
Carousel: boy on horse Laurie Fox PESSEMIER Acrylic on wood 13 x 4 inches
Carousel: sketch red giraffe Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic on wood 13 x 7.5 inches
Carousel: girl on horse Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic on wood 10 x 6.5 inches
Carousel: horse race Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic on wood 7 x 13 inches
Carousel: with carriage Blair Pessemier Acrylic on wood 7 x 13 inches
Rainer Maria Rilke: White elephant (written in the early 1900s while living in Paris)
Under its canopy, in the shade it casts,
turns a world with painted horses,
all from a land that lingers a while
before it disappears.
Some, it's true, are harnessed to a wagon,
but all have valor in their eyes.
A fierce red lion leaps among them,
and here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.
Even a stag appears, straight from the forest,
except for the saddle he wears, and,
buckled on it, a small boy in blue.
And a boy in white rides the lion,
gripping it with small clenched hands,
while the lion flashes teeth and tongue.
And here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.
And riding past on charging horses come girls,
bright-eyed, almost too old now for this children's play.
With the horses rising under them,
they are looking up and off to what awaits.
And here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.
Rainer Maria Rilke: White elephant (written in the early 1900s while living in Paris)
Under its canopy, in the shade it casts,
turns a world with painted horses,
all from a land that lingers a while
before it disappears.
Some, it's true, are harnessed to a wagon,
but all have valor in their eyes.
A fierce red lion leaps among them,
and here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.
Even a stag appears, straight from the forest,
except for the saddle he wears, and,
buckled on it, a small boy in blue.
And a boy in white rides the lion,
gripping it with small clenched hands,
while the lion flashes teeth and tongue.
And here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.
And riding past on charging horses come girls,
bright-eyed, almost too old now for this children's play.
With the horses rising under them,
they are looking up and off to what awaits.
And here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.
