Another Rene Magritte Homage, he painted this one in 1953. Notice the peak that resembles the head of a dove from some of his other paintings, one of which i used for the Poems competition. Magritte was masterful at adding surreal images like this to further blur the lines between reality and art and spirituality, poetry and metephor. My father died in 2006 and i sort of lost interest in art for a while. He had cancer and his radiation therapy compromised an artery near his heart, he was recovering from the cancer when one night the artery burst. he died in the hospital before i could make it there. His name was Aubrey David Pack, he was also an artist and wonderful father. this ones for you dad!


I used the band Unrest's song "June" for the video, as it applies to this homage and my feelings about my fathers death. Enjoy!

JUNE

As you lay dying
Poppies are reddening
Bursting wide open
Revealing their seeds
Tastes like the water that beads on white skin

As you lay dying
Morphine and ice cream
Staining your sheets and confusing your mind
And it reminds me
They still get paid when you die

They took the heart right out of you

How did it feel to be twenty-six degrees
With your body split
Leaking all about your legs

Could you hear me call
From your mountaintop
Crawling through the snow
Crawling through the blood to say

Daddy
Don't go away
Daddy
Please stay