Art: Cyril LarvorI HOLD MY FATHER’S BEER
I
Grainy 4×4 photos
like some prop deck of saloon cards
my mother has filed
in a yellowed Polaroid Flashgun #268 box.
Meant for automatic color-pack cameras,
this box contains the cycle of life:
film to camera, exposure to development.
Now a mini-tomb
it catalogues the slideshow
of childhood. Pinafores and matching
tights meet shiny doll babies and mini kitchens.
Snapshot.
I slide the snug-fitting lid from my cache,
inhale the scent of 1972,
split-level with two car garage,
shellacked orange linoleum,
golden shag carpet.
I meet variations of myself.
I see more clearly
the woman-my-mother who gathered these pictures,
writing in skate-looped letters
my name, the year.
It is a small alphabet to unscramble
like the life I have now.
Dusty, itchy.
II
Most shots are of my legs.
Polly Flinders, patent leathers.
Fractional,
I am out of focus, off center, back to the lens.
In one frame I hold my father’s beer;
in another, a pack of Salem Lights.
Most images
are presents: Christmas, birthday, Easter
her photo omphalos.
About the author:
Candice Kelsey's poems have appeared in such journals as Poet Lore, The Cortland Review, Sibling Rivalry Press, North Dakota Quarterly, Burningword, and Wilderness House -- recently her nonfiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She's also the author of a successful trade paperback parenting guide. An educator of 20 years' standing with her master's degree in literature from LMU, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.
Art: Cyril Larvor
In the artist's words:
Cyril Larvor. My Black Bird artist name is a wink to the crow who is an animal who is often hated by his appearance as the black cat, but who is also revered by a tremendous amount of culture and seen as one of the smarter animals capable of counting and speaking. Speaking … and I have already seen it.I have always drawn, painted and photographed. I wanted to be a cartoonist in advertising or photography, but I went to study in business and computer science.For 15 years I worked in the directions of information and computer security. 2 years ago I stopped to return in my first love the art and the human. My influences are vast; I was born in the 80s in the northern suburbs of Paris where social and cultural diversity is enormous. The 80s were a huge source of artistic inspiration. In addition to contemporary art and all other movements, there was the appearance in France of graffiti, manga, hip hop, computer science and the evolution of photography and television. All this has to influence. Since my return in the art, I exhibit in the galleries. The Lavomatik, also proposes music, the book …. ART21, a gallery in Montmartre, a district which likes and others a little everywhere.My other activity is in the human and the association. I collaborate with many associations that have been used as a means of communication and income.I collaborated with associations to help orphaned children, children in difficulty, migrants and give them the means to express themselves through Mixart art. An association for the protection of the oceans Bloom.An association against skin cancerAssociations against poverty and exclusion: Emmaus, restaurant of the heart… J organizes painting workshops with children or disabled people and also grafiti classes. My inspirations are unlimited, including painting or in pictures, and I like mixing the two. My philosophical tendencies are in sharing, cohesion and construction or reconstruction away from destruction. My tips are simple. Create with your heart and share your art positively. For my art, I use all media and types of paints, but I have a preference for acrylic and aerosol: street art tools, and for digital photography and desktop publishing. To contact me, I am in the gallery Art21, otherwise by Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/The-Black-Bird-BLB-465375923644961/.My project with the origamiist Manuel Belhamissi
https://www.facebook.com/Origami-custom-MBLB-concept-804841046289656/Instagramto Cyril Larvor or by mail for all personalized orders cyril.larvor@gmail.com.
Long live art.
