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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
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 Fire and the Rose (2003-05)

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View fullsize Now the hedgerow is blanched for an hour with transitory blossom of snow
View fullsize When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire
View fullsize This is the spring time but not in time's covenant
View fullsize Between two waves of the sea
View fullsize Midwinter spring is its own season
View fullsize As if blown towards me like the metal leaves
View fullsize Over a dark lake
View fullsize Yet ease is cause of wonder
View fullsize Through the unknown, unremembered gate
View fullsize Where is the summer, the unimaginable zero summer?
View fullsize Here, the intersection of the timeless moment
View fullsize Reflecting in a watery mirror
View fullsize In May, with voluptuary sweetness
View fullsize The wonder that I feel is easy
View fullsize In the waning dusk I caught the look of some dead master
View fullsize Fire without and fire within, this is the place where we begin
View fullsize Neither budding nor fading
View fullsize It would be the same, when you leave the rough road
View fullsize Spring has come in winter
View fullsize The words of the living are wind in dry grass
View fullsize The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree are of equal duration
View fullsize Being between two lives
View fullsize And the fire and the rose are one
View fullsize And all manner of things shall be well
View fullsize And next year’s words await another voice
View fullsize If you came this way in may time, you would find the hedges white again
View fullsize While the light fails on a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel
View fullsize I pray you to forgive both bad and good
View fullsize Renewed, transfigured, in another pattern
View fullsize The rest is grace
View fullsize This is the use of memory: for liberation
View fullsize We only live, only suspire, consumed by either fire or fire
View fullsize But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
View fullsize The dove descending breaks the air
View fullsize Love is the unfamiliar Name