I TASTE THE COLOUR… AUGUST 18, 1993
I taste the colour of the gods
through the geometrical interplay
like the ambrosia from Mount Olympus
of the eye eaten by love
in its tightly-fitting golden yellow armour
warped with a web of blue threads
the hands are of such a marine light
as to break the cobalt apart
with red colours laid in clusters of rubies.
The arched ocean eats the golden day up
through the ropes and cables of a ship.
I taste the imagined images
a liquid out of the sun
named russet-ray
and bluish
filamentary
as my country’s fabric is
or the pale seabirds’
one.
Jean-Paul Jérôme
August 18, 1993
Jean-Paul Jérôme's writing :
- The Colour – The Light – The Shape, 1994
- The « Tourennes » of the Winds, 1992
- Presentation of my latest 1987 paintings, 1987
- Disclosure and Discovery, 1993
- Sculpture
- Some early 1986 painter’s considerations on his acrylics on dressed cardboard and fabriano papers, 1986
- The mystique of colours, 1990
- Painting is… varennes, 1991
- Bouquet-passion, 1993
- I taste the colour, 1993
- The sculpture grafts shapes… 1992
- The varennes period, a spectacular outcome, 1999
- Interview by Richard Barbeau, 2001
- Les grands-reliefs de bois peints, 2002