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Based on poems by Wallace Stevens, John Keats, Stanley Kunitz and D.H. Lawrence, and using scientific graphics from the past and present, Oriole Farb Feshbach's pastels and watercolors explore the elusive nature of light and refraction in astronomical and atmospheric phenomena such as solar flares, rainbows and the auroras.
“My images are responses to phrases and ideas about astronomical and natural phenomena that I find in poems and fiction in authors as diverse as Henry Thoreau, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Derek Walcott, Emily Dickinson, Barry Lopez and Elizabeth Bishop. I also gather science information from a range of scientists such as Descartes, Newton and Hubble. I work mostly with images found in the sky and oceans, such as auroras, rainbows, comets and icebergs. I juxtapose and integrate images to explore the complementary beauty of nature from two different zones. I use mostly two media: watercolor to capture and reinforce the qualities of water; pastel for particles in space.
Read the article on Oriole Farb Feshbach featured in Preview magazine. (PDF, 11.23MB)
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 Ever-Brightening Origin |
 Still Starred Who Gives Transparence |
 Windows Will Be Lighted |
 Rising Beautiful and True |
 Great Speeds of Space |
 Eyes Open...In Every Sky |
 This is Where the Serpent LIves |
 Splashed Wide Wise No3 |
 A Cabin Stands it is White |
 Whiteness Grows Less Vivid |
 Isolation Which Only the Two Could Share |
 In the Sky, as Crown and Diamond Cabala |
 Mountains Running Like Water |
 Wind As Sharp As Salt |
 Goat Leaper Crystalled and Luminous Sitting... |
 In the Ferns.../ Black Beaded |
 Will Look Like Frost |
 Stars on Spokes Turn |
 Wind Will Spin its Windy Grandeurs Round |
 Choir it With Naked Wind |