Incubating Poetry. Full-colour 28-page book (5.5″ x 8.5″) based on this body of work. Available for $10.
This series of mixed-media work is of birds’ nests. Many are created including pages from the Oxford English Dictionary. The series is called “Incubating Poetry”: poetry from Keith Wilkinson (and “others” – i.e. e.e. cummings and T.S. Elliot) are either on the piece or written in “creative conversation”.
Incubating Poetry
mixed-media nest paintings by Mary Bennett
Soul Talk “I said to my soul be still and wait without hope” T.S. Elliot, Four Quartets includes acrylic ink; copper foil
Swoop (owl descending on nest) mixed-media on wood panel 24”x 30” $450
Structure (eagle’s nest in birch tree) mixed-media on canvas 36”x36” sold includes Oxford English Dictionary strips for twigs and bark.
Trashed (house finch incorporated upcycled plastic) All trash found within a two-block walk around home. mixed-media on canvas 36”x36” $900
Ledges (northern fulmar egg on cliff) mixed-media on canvas 36”x36” $900 includes corrugated cardboard strips and poetry phrases written on.
Sprawl (raven’s nest on cliff) mixed-media on canvas 36”x 36” $900 O.E.D. strips form twigs; cheesecloth; dried hydrangea flowers on eggs
Coven (13 word-eggs in nest) mixed-media on panel includes dictionary strips, magnetic paint and moveable words. 24”x 18” SOLD
Quartet (4 eggs in nest) mixed-media on panel 24”x 18” $400
Spare (one egg in eagle’s nest) 12”x 24” SOLD
True Dream “i thank you god for most this amazing day” e.e. cummings mixed-media on canvas 18”x 24” $350
in visible thread (hummingbird nest in pine tree) 12”x 24” SOLD
String Theory (nest with string) mixed-media on canvas 12”x 24” sold Atlas pages on eggs
Gone (empty nest on branch) mixed-media on canvas 12”x 24” $275