Collaborations
Below are a series of essays, poems and reflections on the work of Kynan Sutherland by writers, filmmakers, poets and more.
Still in Tune
In this short film, Ron C. Moss offers poetry and art to music performed by Kynan Sutherland on classical guitar.
Carved and Silent
By Ron Moss
In this short film by Ron Moss the two art forms of painting and poetry come together, as they have over the centuries around the world. Ron has responded to each painting with an original haiku, revealing a deep artistic accord and love of the natural world.
Four Poems to Four Paintings
“The ‘mount’ keeps rising to mind / spreading itself as naked as a hand…”
A meditation on the Landscapes of Kynan Sutherland
By Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA
A parallel may be drawn between the drawings of Kynan Sutherland and the sort of Zen meditation that one associates with someone like Japan's most celebrated haiku master, Matsuo Basho (1644-94). When Basho wrote his Travel-Worn Satchel and Weather-Exposed Skeleton, or, slightly later, his The Narrow Way Within, the portrait of the journey through the landscape becomes the portrait of the mind…