With Musical Notations by Andrew Maxfield
Charcoal on Staff Paper — 8.75” x 12.5” (Framed: 18” x 24”)
Artist Statement:
This drawing is a meditation on sorrow, mercy, and hope. Inspired by Phineas Fletcher’s Drop, Drop, Slow Tears, the bowed figure emerges from the quiet music of the page—a soul suspended between grief and grace. Her posture is one of pleading, of reverence, and of surrender.
The musical staves and faint notations hint at a sacred lament, where the act of weeping becomes a prayer. In these slow, deliberate marks, I sought to echo the poem’s longing: that in the flood of our own tears, faults and fears might be washed away, leaving only the possibility of being seen through the lens of divine compassion.
With Musical Notations by Andrew Maxfield
Charcoal on Staff Paper — 8.75” x 12.5” (Framed: 18” x 24”)
Artist Statement:
This drawing is a meditation on sorrow, mercy, and hope. Inspired by Phineas Fletcher’s Drop, Drop, Slow Tears, the bowed figure emerges from the quiet music of the page—a soul suspended between grief and grace. Her posture is one of pleading, of reverence, and of surrender.
The musical staves and faint notations hint at a sacred lament, where the act of weeping becomes a prayer. In these slow, deliberate marks, I sought to echo the poem’s longing: that in the flood of our own tears, faults and fears might be washed away, leaving only the possibility of being seen through the lens of divine compassion.
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears (Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)
Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet,
which brought from heaven the news and Prince of Peace.
Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat;
to cry for vengeance sin doth never cease.
In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears;
nor let his eye see sin, but through my tears.
