KIERAN E SCOTT

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A mark of Orange paint

ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT AT INDIAN FOOT FARM.

After I’d finished taking this portrait I sat on the barn floor and listened to Ellen talk about Art, poetry and life. Outside the fading Vermont light glowed amber and gold – Ellen talked about a mark of orange paint on an artists canvas – how that one brush stroke can make an average painting perfect. It’s the same with poetry- you can spend days thinking about the inclusion of one word. The success of a verse can rest on something as simple as that.