DARBY BARNARD'S PASSING
(1934-2016)

Art in a fluid situation
in all its poetic parts
of a colorful swirl
with a fascinating pull
of a single band about us
in a long corridor
it seems
these color field painting
featured in L.A. county
museum rooms,1964
are as day dreams
which also departed
this life
with Darby's maxims on art
added to his credit
from lyrical abstractions
of an acrylic medium
at squeegees, rakes
and brooms loosening
from easels in brushwork
of gels,polymers
escaping in a range
of a topographic quality
in geometric light forms
awakening from a range
in eccentric lyrical storms
as landscapes of colors spin
as in "Jamaica","The Chase"
"The Courier", "China"
"Carmelite","Abyssian."