Enzo 97

There is love in your body but you can't hold it in
It pours from your eyes and spills from your skin
Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks
And the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts

Florence and the machine

Enzo 93

Enzo 86

Enzo 82

Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving of
The cruelty or the grace

L. Cohen

Enzo 79

You know my love goes with you as your love stays with me.
It's just the way it changes like the shoreline and the sea

L. Cohen

Enzo 77

Enzo 55

I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.

Bukowski

Enzo 52

Enzo 46

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Charles Bukowski

I was looking at cloud formations yesterday and how different types clouds look together. There were background light fluffy ones and foreground dark skuddy ones. 

Enzo 43

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

Rumi

Enzo 41

Love, the silent wind which bends and sways my every fibre toward you



This morning I also painted something based on the photo I took the other day of the moon and trees. A boganvilla shoot was really close and I was annoyed it was in the way but I like the distance difference shown.

Enzo 40, yep there are 60 more to go

Whenever I see you
My heart is pierced anew
Wounded by the possibilities
Of us

Enzo 39

Speechless I gaze: the flame within
Runs swift o'er all my quivering skin:
My eyeballs swim; with dizzy din
My brain reels round

Sapho

Enzo 38

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Rumi

Enzo 35

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of.
Dance me to the end of love

L.Cohen

It is my 16th wedding anniversary today

Enzo 32

Enzo 27

Enzo 3

The Sun Rises
The Moon Sinks
A Poor Night's sleep
Is Packed Away

Having done more reading on enzo, I've seen they normally have poem or a few words along side them. As I don't know neither Japanese nor kanji I tried English and western lettering. Western lettering developed from pressing a stylis in clay to chiseling in stone to writing with a quill to ball point pen. It is not suited to the brush and looks sloppy. I will perhaps use a pen or a small hard bristle brush next time.

Musings on beauty

The path to beauty
The same as love
Is always changing
Never not a challenge

The path to beauty
The same as love
Requires hardness
But not turning to stone

The path to beauty
The same as love
Requires softness
But not becoming a puddle

The path to beauty
The same as love
Is always uphill
Never a summit

The path to beauty
The same as love
Is
Worth
Every
Breath

Ashleigh George

Another jeweller who combines words with her pieces is Ashleigh George. She draws inspiration from nature and embeds parts of scripture from the bible into her jewellery. Whilst I'm not necessarily looking to scripture for the words I bond with my pieces, her work reiterates my point that more meaning can be brought to visual form through the addiction of words and phrases.

 "Wearing The Word" is beautiful and an immense honor and privilege." says Ashleigh.

http://ashgeorgejewelry.com/about.html

Written on the back of this bangle is:

….."So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."