Book I

POETRY & PORTRAIT: AN ANTHOLOGY: PART I & PART II
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY TERESA LAKIER

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CHALLENGE

The essential element in creating portraits is capturing the uniqueness of the subject. The soul is the element of a portrait that, if captured, cradles the unique character of that person. Capturing the soul—literally or visually—demands the merging of the soul of the subject and the artist energetically. It is the artist, the portrait maker, who attempts to express the life force in a unique way.

HUMANITY

I juxtapose words together in an unordinary and irrational form. Most of us are not ordinary and most of our feelings do not feel rational and/or logical all the time. Each of us has our own peculiarities.  So do the words I write.

The theme of my poetry is darkness vs. light.  The decision to rise above the negative in painful situations where it feels like we are drowning in remorse is so important. Doing so, we are able to see the light radiating around us bringing us through those challenging moments in time.

Because feelings are not always rational or logical, they cannot be spoken of that way. Emotions are hard to grasp and harder to feel. That’s why talking through them is an important part of learning about them.

Putting words together irrationally and unordinarily shows you how rational you really are, and how emotions are really just that, emotions.  And, that you are in charge, not them.