NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

This body of work is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. Frost refers to the metaphor that something new and pure is rare and valuable. That rare and valuable purity is personified as always leaving. Each line helps to communicate the theme of the poem: the transitory nature of life.

In this body of work I ask the question, how can one find comfort in the impermanence of things. Is this life here more meaningful because it’s definite and should we be more immersed in the present moment, knowing nothing is permanent here?

All works are Platinum Palladium Prints with Gold Leaf, Limited Edition, numbered and signed.

Mari Calai