2002
(from the William Butler Yeats series)
Encaustic and mixed media on panel; 48 x 42 x 3 inches (122 x 107 x 8 cm)

In January 1919, in the aftermath of World War I, the Black and Tan atrocities in Ireland, and the Russian revolution, William Butler Yeats wrote what is deemed his central poem, The Second Coming. In the context of violence “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” “There is something in the power of the poem that persuades us of our powerlessness. The horror vision of the destruction of the familiar seems infinitely meaningful.”*
*Unterecker, John. A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats. New York: Syracuse University Press 1996.