Breached / What's a Breach?
Breached
Amanda Skinner
Acrylic on canvas
What's a Breach?
What’s a Breach?
A contract - broken
A love - abandoned
An agreement - dismissed
Can a broken breach ever be repaired or reached?
As a breach does not attain to reach
The outcome or choice once desired, but leaves
A broken-ness of lost hope and unfortunate release
Something once so cherished ... abandoned and ceased
Can we ever learn how to overcome a breach?
Or, attempt to someway redeem or teach without disbelief?
Or, might we suffer the consequences of despair without relief?
For,
A breach provides no relief
Broken promises, lost communication, the list goes on ...
Defeat, after defeat, after defeat
Hope, lost in disarray
As painted dead fish on display -
Just rotting and stinking, while wasting away
- Mary Miceli
About the Creators
Amanda Skinner
Amanda “Brooks” Skinner is a visual artist and arts educator based in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Originally from Kentucky, she works primarily in painting and is currently focused on themes of beauty, control, and chaos, explored through her ongoing Breached series and an upcoming racehorse series planned for fall. Amanda holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Art Education from Salem State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Transylvania University. With a background in museum education, she has worked with institutions including the Peabody Essex Museum, Historic New England, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is drawn to work that disrupts gently—art that invites curiosity and starts a conversation. Amanda maintains a studio at Gallows Hill Artist Studios in Salem and exhibits her work throughout New England.
Instagram: @AmandaBrooksArt Website: www.amandabskinner.com
Mary Miceli
Mary, former educator and long-time Board Member of the MA State Poetry Society, loves to write stories, poetry, and plays. Music has ever inspired and fostered Mary's writing with its various rhythmic styles. (I love my piano.)
Mary dabbles with photography and has won two photography contests in recent years (Amateur Photography) @ the Peabody Galleria.