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Beth Ames Swartz
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Early Work (1960-73)
Early Work (1974-76)
Inquiry into Fire (1976-77)
Fire Work (1978-84)
Israel Revisited (1980)
A Moving Point of Balance (1983)
Aurora Borealis (1984)
Night Vision (1984)
Trans-Illumination (1986)
Alchemy (1987)
Celestial Visitations (1987)
Dreams for the Earth (1989)
Wounded Healer (1991)
Verse for the Eleventh Hour (1993)
Story for the Eleventh Hour (1993)
Lotus as Metaphor (1994)
ShenQi and States of Change (1996)
Visible Reminders (2001)
Fire and the Rose (2003)
Thirteenth Moon (2005)
Homage (2014)
Islam (2018)
Broken World (2020)
Quantum Light (2023)
Additional Art
Travel Art - Aspen (1986)
Travel Art - Tuscany (2002)
Travel Art - Pacific Beach (2003)
Travel Art - South Africa (2008)
Travel Art - China (2009)
Travel Art - Baltic (2012)
Travel Art - Caribbean (2018)
Multiples - Earthflow (1977)
Multiples - Earthscapes (1978-79)
Multiples - Israel Revisited (1980-81)
Multiples - Night Vision (1982-86)
Multiples - Power Animals (1983)
Multiples - Story for the Eleventh Hour (1995)
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Beth Ames Swartz
Home
Artist Statement
Bio
Art Series
Early Work (1960-73)
Early Work (1974-76)
Inquiry into Fire (1976-77)
Fire Work (1978-84)
Israel Revisited (1980)
A Moving Point of Balance (1983)
Aurora Borealis (1984)
Night Vision (1984)
Trans-Illumination (1986)
Alchemy (1987)
Celestial Visitations (1987)
Dreams for the Earth (1989)
Wounded Healer (1991)
Verse for the Eleventh Hour (1993)
Story for the Eleventh Hour (1993)
Lotus as Metaphor (1994)
ShenQi and States of Change (1996)
Visible Reminders (2001)
Fire and the Rose (2003)
Thirteenth Moon (2005)
Homage (2014)
Islam (2018)
Broken World (2020)
Quantum Light (2023)
Additional Art
Travel Art - Aspen (1986)
Travel Art - Tuscany (2002)
Travel Art - Pacific Beach (2003)
Travel Art - South Africa (2008)
Travel Art - China (2009)
Travel Art - Baltic (2012)
Travel Art - Caribbean (2018)
Multiples - Earthflow (1977)
Multiples - Earthscapes (1978-79)
Multiples - Israel Revisited (1980-81)
Multiples - Night Vision (1982-86)
Multiples - Power Animals (1983)
Multiples - Story for the Eleventh Hour (1995)
CV
PBS Film
Videos
Books & Catalogs
Reviews
Contact
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Early Work (1960-73)
Early Work (1974-76)
Inquiry into Fire (1976-77)
Fire Work (1978-84)
Israel Revisited (1980)
A Moving Point of Balance (1983)
Aurora Borealis (1984)
Night Vision (1984)
Trans-Illumination (1986)
Alchemy (1987)
Celestial Visitations (1987)
Dreams for the Earth (1989)
Wounded Healer (1991)
Verse for the Eleventh Hour (1993)
Story for the Eleventh Hour (1993)
Lotus as Metaphor (1994)
ShenQi and States of Change (1996)
Visible Reminders (2001)
Fire and the Rose (2003)
Thirteenth Moon (2005)
Homage (2014)
Islam (2018)
Broken World (2020)
Quantum Light (2023)
Folder: Additional Art
Back
Travel Art - Aspen (1986)
Travel Art - Tuscany (2002)
Travel Art - Pacific Beach (2003)
Travel Art - South Africa (2008)
Travel Art - China (2009)
Travel Art - Baltic (2012)
Travel Art - Caribbean (2018)
Multiples - Earthflow (1977)
Multiples - Earthscapes (1978-79)
Multiples - Israel Revisited (1980-81)
Multiples - Night Vision (1982-86)
Multiples - Power Animals (1983)
Multiples - Story for the Eleventh Hour (1995)
CV
PBS Film
Videos
Books & Catalogs
Reviews
Contact

Broken World (2020-22)

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View fullsize What I hold healed, original now, and pure
View fullsize Its voice an instant in the wind
View fullsize I know not whither hurled
View fullsize Before the stars are caught and hived in the sun’s ray
View fullsize The Three Body Problem
View fullsize Banked voices slain!
View fullsize Visible wings of silence sown
View fullsize In azure circle, widening as they dip
View fullsize Cleft to despair
View fullsize In wounds pledged once to hope
View fullsize Dark Matters
View fullsize When darkness comes . . .
View fullsize Dark Mass
View fullsize What the hand, dare seize the fire?
View fullsize And so it was I entered the broken world to trace the visionary company of love
View fullsize My love is like to ice, and I to fire
View fullsize Pentecostal fire in the dark time of the year
View fullsize The wind scatters tears upon dust
View fullsize My word I poured
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View fullsize That sky unseals her earth, and lifts love in its shower
View fullsize Vortex #5
View fullsize Vortex #7
View fullsize Vortex #6
View fullsize O falling fire
View fullsize In the forest of the night
View fullsize Water and fire succeed
View fullsize The thoughts that burned and glowed within
View fullsize That made her feel on fire within
View fullsize Slight air and purging fire are both with thee
View fullsize Ashes denote that Fire was
View fullsize World’s wildfire, leave but ash
View fullsize Watch the flame burn blinkless and inscrutable

Beth Ames Swartz

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