Roy DeForest, Return to St. Helena, 1997, acrylic and mixed media on Masonic.

“The real poet studies the world as it is: lovely, terrible, sensible, grotesque; and would ask for no other in its place. Humor is the final sign and seal of seriousness for it is a proof that reality is held in honor and in love.” -- Mark van Doren

Roy DeForest
Return to St. Helena, 1997, acrylic and mixed media on Masonic.

“ For me one of the most beautiful thing s about art is that it is one of the last strongholds of magic. It is one of the few areas of human activity in which it is possible to do something for which you might be otherwise locked up or incarcerated” --Roy DeForest