"But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction"
-(excerpt) "Eve of Destruction" Barry McGuire

#blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #puertorico #sanjuan #kimpowerful

Monday mornings are a blur.
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#blackandwhitephotography #catography #blackandwhiteandgrey #silhouette #cityscape #kimpowerful

What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”
― Mary Oliver, poet
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#bestfriend #petportrait #petportraits #springerspaniel #oilonpanel #springer #kimpowerful

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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#blackandwhitephotography #bnw #noireetblanc #blackcat #moeandmaggie #kimpowerful

"Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,..." -Robert Frost "Bereft"
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#studiovisit #doorway #solitude #landscapepainter #modernfairytales #wip #personalmythology #oilpainting #kimpowerful

Hands. Off.
"Prick" by Kim Power. Oil on wooden palette, 2019
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#palettepainting #protest #prick #trompel'oeil #pussycat #hands-off #goodtrouble #kimpowerful

-even a moralist must allow that this gaudy, bustling, vulgar street reminds us that life is a struggle; that all building is perishable; that all display is vanity; from which we may conclude . . .
-Virginia Woolf
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#lifeisstruggle #blackandwhitephotography #sculpture #b&w #kimpowerful

I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!
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#blackandwhitephotography #bunny #stonesculpture #lawnornament #kimpowerful