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Ramona Nordal // the magnificent beyond

by Lorin Drexler · Jan 16, 2022

Ramona Nordal – Featured Artist

the magnificent beyond

her pastel beauty
sets in like a racecar sun 
beaming over a striped antique track
skin blue and lost in winter
with overgrown sunflowers frozen and
buried in

she asks me to save all
the dead flowers i find
and i tell her i will
in a lyric through a dream
i tell her i love her
playing guitar on a beach

"i love you...
so tell me that you love me [she says it back]
sometimes love is not equal
sometimes love is not fair"
i awake crying and knowing
all the ways in which i love her
understanding that much more about us
about love
i tell her i love her
she says it back and
i can feel her tears
her heart beats and i can feel that too

the object of her beauty is
a dream we've all
had becoming both
our idols and ourselves
the magnificence is buried somewhere
far outside of both of
these wishes and failures

the king is never alone
but always makes decisions
as a king rather the kingdom he rules
this power is a snake pretending it were a mouse
and acting as a mouse with the power of a snake
the true king begs for mercy
from life and from those that appear
to be winning at it
the magnificence is buried somewhere
far away from each of these
wishes and becomings

i am only a man
some think of me less
but barely know themselves
some think of me more
but barely know how to properly think 
some don't think of me at all
i love these ones 
too much
like a plane crash
but not enough for 
remarkable things to survive from it
the magnificence is buried somewhere
far beyond each of these
wishes and interrelations

for that i must tell you
and that which i lie to uphold
i am as much a part of you
as anything else 
including myself
the magnificence isn't buried
it exists
beyond all of this
beyond these thoughts
your wishes
dreams and failures
burdens and becomings
beyond what we know
what we think we know
and what we lie to uphold

we might spot it 
for just a moment
and then it's gone

by LORIN DREXLER


Ramona Nordal

https://www.ramonanordal.com

Contemporary Artist, Toronto

Canadian-born artist Ramona Nordal began her art exploration at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here she studied lithography, color theory, painting, and drawing and later focused on anatomy drawing and painting. Color theory has always been a huge part of Nordal’s process and is quickly becoming known for her richly evocative color pallet. The central theme that unites all of her work is the mixture of the traditional with the unconventional. Her work is a representation of her interest in the human form, pop art culture, and capturing the presence of her subjects. Nordal is hyper-aware of art’s relationship with human emotion, and her subjects reflect this as they captivate you and entice you into their world. Her work can be found in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, and Europe.

“The random collaboration of old and new is important to me because this is how I see the new generation. It is the mixture of traditional and unconventional that attracts us and takes us on a fresh new journey.”

Ramona Nordal currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.


What is Gen Society?

Gen Society is an art space blog for visual art and creative writing collaborations, and other randomizations. Hosted by writer and musician Lorin Drexler, this online venue is an expressive experience for those interested in the world of the arts. It is a poetic journey through the hearts and minds of contemporary artists in practice and a reflection of those that have long passed.

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