Pneumonia

Geneviève White

Montreal-born artist Genevieve White, currently living in Berlin, is honing her skills at painting after her ten years living and exhibiting in NYC.  After finishing her Master’s Degree at Parsons University in NY, she exhibited extensively.

She is interested in the dynamic play and poetic potential of colors in abstract painting. She blends onto the surface of the painting: colors, lines and textures that evoke and search for a balance and dance between emotion, structure, and intuition. Her exploration and never-ending fascination for this dialogue between the paint and her deep desire to understand human connections ends up on the canvas as a surface of vibrating colors meeting and brushing against each other. Her abstract paintings emerge and are inspired by nature and the people she knows personally, and the feelings they evoke.

Pneumonia

Untangible stars

Drift in that lung

As dark as night sky

Abnormalities in time and space dwell

Dancing, happy to infiltrate

The skin

Needles in and out

Sliver of light climbing up the bone

The spine crooked

A clear water liquid collected

Pure, cold and fresh

Life from the brain

The wisdom’s body ignored

Invited the pain inside to live

Love trapped in a heart

Too big to contain

Frivolous stories of souls too close

Birds singing

Eyes closed

Light seeping

Miracle melodies

Kept the consciousness alive

That mother of four

Scared, fragile

Tense and alone

Warrior like

Her courage embodied inside her stomach, creating stones

Imagining a lover’s hand in hers while the needle goes in

No one there, emotions run the show

Body shivers

Chills and soft legs

No Moon to honour the collapse

Birds, bless them

Pure softness of tones

Healing that light sensitivity

Between her brain and heart

Coherence in the colours of the curtain

Gave sanity an entry

Green hues, purples and yellows

Hope on the rise

The will killed

Arise, leave the fire of the mind in that secret hospital room