Jerry Farber Art

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"Blossoms Dying"
When she was mine...in my life.....just like her favorite flower

Soft and gentle, tender and tranquil....
Pink and sweet...soothing...
Spring eternal....her voice, her smile....
the way she said my name....
the way she said my name.......
spring eternal.

and that last look that she gave me....
filled with disdain....
but not a broken heart......more like....
getting fucking impaled...
broken ribs and a cracked spine....

I drove home crying, listening to the sound of....
Blossoms Dying
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"Christmas Ghosts"

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"Early Winter"
 
" Autumn was ours.....like we conquered it!
Like it was meant to be.....
the falling leaves set a path before us..
the things we'd done,
the dreams we dreampt,
and the plans we made........
pumpkin picking and getting tender to scary movies,
reaching second base in the middle of a corn maze,
and tomorrow we will........we will.....
but the crisp air brought a chill,
and the shorter days brought darkness
Woke to a sudden frost, a distant cold
oh but the seeds we had planted, your flowers in bloom...
withered in the wind....and whisked away
lost to the season, lost for no reason
lost to the wickedness of an....
Early Winter
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"Eating You"

On the record...it's.....

Unfinished business, Uncompleted tasks, time misspent, lost relationships and words left unsaid....
It's all negative energy......
Invading our minds with stress and anxiety.....
Do THIS, do THAT, because I didn't get to do that and now I have to be here then ans there later....

Everyday our pasts become larger and longer as each wasted hour builds into a monument of time not utilized, a snake trail across the map that we INTENDED to follow.....
rife with diversions, erratic circles of backtracking and outright getting lost.....

Whatever we are to do with whatever amount of time left of our future....should be seized upon now.....
Because every single minute of each hour in each day, we are falling behind....

because time is.....

Eating You!

Off the record...it's.....
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"Kind of Sun"

Kind of Sun

 

What kind of sun……..

Illuminates and breathes hope into vision, inspires with her beauty,

Electrifies with a touch, echoes a thousand years with a reflection in her eyes….

 

Yet bathes me in shadow, and denies me a smile,

Leaving me in darkness, in emptiness, because I could not find the light?

 

What kind of sun….

Literally gives birth to life,and life to love, nurture to promise,

Sharing knowledge and joy, painting pictures of a thousand years…..

 

Yet locks me in perpetual night, all pale and shallow I’m now just a shadow,

Oh so close to the light, close enough to hope, to almost touch (touch) but not to hold?

 

What kind of sun?

 

The one I can’t fucking have!
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"Kind of Sun"

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"The things we lost along the way" by Jerry Farber

The Things We lost along the way

 

Was nothing but promise set out before us…

Walkin in the park for a thousand years

A playground for the children, a wildflower just for you

Setting off into the future, such a classic story

 Sinatra sang about us

 

But there were stumbles,

Maybe a wayward thorn, tis only a scratch

Maybe we were just off, after being so on

But the off was the off of the path we saw

And like a haze, like a fog,

A step was missed, call out the dogs

our story had become lost

 

only so close we reached out for each other…

missed by a fraction, the slightest hint of doubt (did I feel skin?)

  

may they find the remains, us  trying to regain

Discarded memories strewn about

just a  body on the side of the road,

That is completely littered with……

 

the things we lost along the way
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'Waning"

Numb!

You become almost apathetic to the pain…

All that was lost…those dreams swept away

Staggered around like a zombie lookin for a fix..shoot me up Doc….

Paint a smile on my face…..drank so much that I couldn’t even get drunk

Felt every minute of everyday, like sandpaper across my eyes….

But…

One day you wake up, and the pain has all been compartmentalized. tucked away in the back of your brain, with the first time you saw a breast, never forgotten but hardly needed

Hope springs forth as you realize, Im not there anymore….Ive been reborn

Someone new steps nto your life, and the birds are singing again, and you are smiling again….cliche me to death but..time does heal all wounds

 

And the sadness? The misery? The empty feeling?.....

 

Waning!!!!!
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Do You like Christmassy Things?

Do You like Christmassy Things?
It wasn't the fact that she was sending inappropriate messages to another man....as much as that hurt, cuz it did..it wasn't the fact that she asked him to go on a date, nah nope, no way...instead it was the inquiry into future get togethers, and by tarnishing and damaging and corrupting such a treasured time that was supposed to be important to both of us......
Of all the things that hurt about this, the worst of it all was when she asked him........"do You like Christmassy things?"

The orginal sketch of this had a broken, weathered, barely legible sign post, and the ornaments all had a crack inn them. I thought better of both ideas, and I like this one....it's great for the soul when you can turn bad to good, and then forget it.....so......painted and forgotten.
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Here's To New Beginnings
This painting makes me laugh.....

It was intended to be the first of my newer much lighter color schemes, and it was early in the New Year, and meant to show how very hopeful I am about the very near future....

a beautful sunrise on a peaceful snowy scene, and all the promise of a brand new day.....

on my second day of painting this, I decided to bring my set up into the living room to paint, as I ws watching tv, instead of in the studio as normal. It was such a peaceful and serene experience, painting by the light of the Christmas Tree. I was very excited about it, and very happy witht he results as I continued to work on it.....I finally reached that point where I considered it done, and looked at it and smiled....then I went to bed.

The next morning I came out, and this time saw it in actual light........

and now I know not to paint by the light of the Christmas treee anymore
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How Did We Get Here?

I remember when it all mattered…..

 

 the way we couldn’t keep our hands off of one another, the living room, the bedroom, my dining room table…

a thousand kisses and a thousand sighs......
dreamy gazes and unimaginable highs.....

 but it grew clear that ours was not a novel, but more of a poem, and as life got in the way we both tryed to hold on, grasping at spirits of what was meant to be short and tantalizingly sweet......and we both knew it, but denied it.......

and now theres nothing left but to ask.....

How did we get here?  
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If You're going to San Francisco

Inspired by a very powerful photograph taken by a friend. It's a very unique view of the Golden Gate bridge, and I thought it would make for a great painting.....
I wanted to show San Fran as just completly bathed in sunlight, awash in the summer colors of twilight. and therefore, the bridge as well, as it leads of into...into..what? ..who knows, the hopes the promises, the futures and the dreams....isn't that what lures us all?

So I named it to pay homage to Scott McKenzie's classic "if You're going to San Francisco"..fitting...Like a bow to wrap it all up, or sum it up.

I think I did this painting maybe a month too soon. As soon as I finished this, I began making some changes in my color palette, that I think, had they ben applied to this, it could have been much better.

But ya can't throw out your kids just cuz they're ugly.
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Just one more house, then we'll go home
Imagine a father with his young child, out and about on Halloween evening....dad is so gung ho about getting candy, that he doesn't even notice his little boy is tired, but he sure as hell isn't going to let dad carry his candy.....

Dad has the neighborhood covered, and even hit the far parts of town,,as far as out here by the woods.....a sad, decrepit, run down, abandoned, forgotten,despised and shunned house...and oh yeah, it's dark...cept for the none too friendly looking jack o'lantern.....

I smart person would say, "screw that...not going there"...but then our scary movie would suck...so instead we have dad saying..."just one last house, then we'll go home"......

Cue the ominous music......and Happy Halloween!
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Moonlight Path
Well Hello Beautiful and a Cioa Bella.......

and a "boy , you sure smell nice......

and she told me her fragrance and then glanced away as my mind went to places that do not exist, evocative of meadows bathed in the moonlight, soft scent of flowers and even softer kisses...that soft night chill far from cold, just enough to enhance being arm in arm as we stroll and explore the world, explore each other .....

until we find it, and when we do.........
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