You may know that in addition to my artwork I also write poetry (posted on my blog Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That?). For the next several months I will be posting here a combined art/poetry project, Large Artist Sketchbook 2020.
I fill up sketchbooks with all kinds of art. Some contain images only and some of them I use the images as inspiration for poetry. In these books the image is on one page of the spread and the poetry on the other. This book is set up in this manner.
I’ll show you the image and then add the poem that goes with it. See what you think.
Note: Two poems were written for this page.
Shadorma 273
Odd place here
to stop and talk. Why
did you choose
desolate
and deserted? And why are
the crows silent now?
2/21/20
Large Artist Sketchbook 2020 image 9
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Shadorma 275
Lost in thought
she is and I know
keep quiet
Interrupt
and I risk one more tirade
or worse still the tears
3/6/20
Large Artist Sketchbook 2020 image 9
Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
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I really like the way the figures are somewhat ghostly in this tree filled landscape. They seem mysterious and intriguing. Before I read your poems, my mind was interpreting them as something spectral, maybe witches gathering in the woods.
I have the same feeling about this picture. The people were added later on and this is how they emerged. I sort of have a Druid vibe here, maybe???!!!
Another wonderful landscape. The crows will never tell. (K)
Yes. I always feel they are eyeing me, saying, what does she know, what do we know that she does not?
They do keep an eye on us.