Aram Nemus Vult

1988-89. oil on canvas. 107x173in. / 271x444cm. Collection Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Aram Nemus Vult - The grove needs an altar. Quoted by Ezra Pound in Canto LXXIX , from the group of poems known as the Pisan Cantos written in captivity in Italy in 1948.

This painting is one of a group of large paintings including Forest, Tristan and The Briar Wood.

For a discussion of this painting see Mario Cutajar. Fade into Darkness