something in hte snow (2014) Original Oil Painting by Federico Cortese

Oil on canvas, 2014, 80 X 70 cm.

“I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth -
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth -
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall? - -
If design govern in a thing so small.”

Design, by Robert Frost. 1922.

Materials used:

oil on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 80 x 70 x 2.5cm (unframed)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Animals and birds