San Martino

by  Giosue’ Carducci ( 1835-1907 )

Painted in Chinese ideograms by 

Bernadette 

At Mui Wo, Hong Kong

dragon boat festival 

Diary of Bernadette :

the fog at the top of the Lotus Mountain, at Mui wo

antonio says,

reminds him of the beautiful poem by Carducci

while reciting the poem in Italian 

walking along the River and the sea

( La nebbia agl'irti colli 

piovigginando sale, 

e sotto il maestrale 

urla e biancheggia 

ma per le vie del borgo 

dal ribollir de' tini 

va l'aspro odor dei vini 

l'anime a rallegrar.

Gira su' ceppi accesi 

lo spiedo scoppiettando; 

sta il cacciator fischiando 

su l'uscio a rimirar

Tra le rossastre nubi 

stormi d'uccelli neri 

com'esuli pensieri, 

nel vespero  migrar )

I seem to see all those images of Carducci in my mind:

is he a painter or is he a poet?

His images are so oriental, his suggestions are so Italian

so when I went home

I translated his poem in Chinese

霧幕峻嶺

雨洒煙昇

西北嘯風

呼白濤浪

怎得鄉阡陌間

蒸釀酒

酸撲恰新嚐

正舒心

轉朱烤

殘火光

壟不斷

霹靂

倚戶

輕哨

獵者 

仰天

紅雲里

歸雁黑

放逐愁

黃昏催

南遷

but the modern Chinese characters do not seem to carry the images he had definitely conceived in his mind

so I painted them

later 

on my iphone

modern characters turned ancient

meeting the visual minds of the first creators of the ideograms 

in order to pay homage to Carducci

as he had believed that somehow

he was Chinese at heart

To all those who love Chinese culture, especially to the Italian friends whom I met in Florence, where I began painting Chinese Calligraphy everyday in abstract forms, I thank you for your patience and your interest in this mutual visual dialogue:are Not All painters born as visually in tune with nature...

thank You Carducci for your inspiration

Bernadette

Celebrating dragon boat festival

14/06/2019

PS. Bernadettekamfulee.it

Bernadette.simpl.com 

are my other two sites