Art & Inspiration
INFINITE DEPTH: Painter Mark Narens and Poet Amy Lee Kite (two Chicago-area creatives) collaborate — the result is a series of paintings in which Narens
interprets Kite’s words through his art. There are 10 pieces in this collection. In addition to the original paintings, there are limited-edition prints available for $375. See some of the available prints below. For the full series, stay tuned for upcoming events or schedule an appointment to visit Naren’s Chicago studio.
To place an order, schedule a studio visit or get more information, please email Suzann at: theblackcouchstudio@gmail.com
Prints (originally $375) — now selling for $290
Sifting Through
Pendulum
Void of Sound
Flow Like the Water
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The following lines from some of Amy’s favorite books and songs have left an indelible image on her mind and heart and continue to inspire her to write and to love.
BOOKS
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor — its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – “The Shadow of the Wind”
Life is given to me only once, and never will be again — I don’t want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise, it’s better not to live at all.
Fyodor Dostoevsky – “Crime and Punishment”
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.”
Nicole Krauss – “The History of Love”
For there is no such things as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Fear, nor more than without Sense.
Thomas Hobbes – “Leviathan”
Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in its most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.
Mary Karr – “The Liar’s Club”
Nature is fine in love, and where ‘tis fine
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.
Shakespeare – “Hamlet”
But we never stop looking, not even after those we love become part of the unreachable horizon. We can never stop carrying the heavy weight of love on this pilgrimage; we can only transfigure what we carry. We can only shatter it and send it whirling into the world so that it can take shape in some new way.
Stephanie Kallos – “Broken For You”
SONGS
They say it fades if you let it,
love was made to forget it.
I carved your name across my eyelids,
you pray for rain I pray for blindness.
The Arcade Fire – “Crown of Love”
In pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches trip me as I speak
Just ‘cause you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there …
Radiohead — “There There”
When there’s too much going on
Well, it’s calm under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
Fiona Apple – “Sullen Girl”
