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The Following Artworks will be a part of Cher Odum's exhibit Attitude accompanied with poetry by Dan Stone August 1st - August 31st

Attitude by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
13" x 9" (unframed)
21.5" x 17.5" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
I wear this look 
to feel my attitude.  
I like to take it out
and dress it up
A peekaboo,
a few strategic
strings of pearls, 
Clearly not a prude,
I’ve been known 
to play it anyway 
but by the book,
to strut my stuff
all by myself 
just because 
it gets me high
to clean up good
and still be 
just a little bad.  
just for the hell

of knowing why.  
I paint my best style
in this natural light 
near the window,
where I strike 
a studied pose. 
It may be staged
but it’s no lie.   
I’m being me,
just, more or less.  
Ready for what’s next,
or what I don’t expect.    
One never knows
who might stop by. 

No Worries by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
16" x 20" (unframed)
23" x 27" (framed)
$1308

Poem by Dan Stone
We’ve all been here.
Trying to explain
our way of being,
sounding full moon crazy
when we tell 
the full blown 
loony truth.  
What’s normal anyway?
The group’s think?
The shrink’s notes 
from our sessions?
All this fuss because
our third eye’s never lazy.  
Sure we’re seeing things 
that aren’t there.  Yet.  
Of course we’re hearing voices,
watching pigs fly,
making choices.  
That’s what gets
us off and brings
us to your brink.  

Makes you ask
us if we know 
what’s real. 
But we don’t budge
or hide our big reveal. 
Lose our link to what 
most don’t believe?
We’d rather die. 
We’re having way 
more fun supplying
brand new diagnoses 
proving the contentions 
to those lies
about our sanities, 
our mysteries
and how they 
make us feel.  
Just wish us well. 
No need to medicate 
or analyze or label 
which half—full 
or empty—when 
we raise a glass.  

Our cup runneth over
when we make you
wonder, sob, or gasp,
raise your fists 
or laugh out loud 
or stand up and applaud
someone who lifts 
a finger to the crowd.    
We love it when 
you throw the book away,
break the old school
doctor-patient rules.
No worries.   
We won’t tell.   ​

On the Move by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
27" x 22" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone​
Guess who’s on 
the move again. 
If you said, a Fool,
a Dreamer, Wanderer,
who’s stirred by whims,
whose hunches 
are her entourage,
her angel band
and faithful crew,
then you’re not wrong.
Even if your lips 
curled in a sneer,
your eyes frowned.  
I’m past the point
where skeptics
make sounds I can hear,
where laughs at my expense 
and puffed up rules apply. 
I learned long ago
as long as I pay

no attention, 
I can rise,
prevail, shine.    
My only mandate 
is to listen,
trust the ears
tuned precisely
to the one and only 
heartbeat—mine,
breathe and then
believe my eyes
to see this dream 
that bubbles now
like a crystal spring
so deep inside,
take the absolutely 
necessary step--
move my feet--
and let this blessed
ever present 
never failing light, 
lead.  

Seers by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
16" x 12" (unframed)
23" x 19" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
Which way now?
What’s next?
I’m sure I’ve heard.  
I’m sure I know. 
Just not out loud yet.  
This light behind 
me isn’t real.  
No one else’s vision
painted on a wall 
can lead, prevail.
No one else’s song 
can sing exactly how I feel.
I’ve learned although 
it may be quiet in a crowd,
my truth won’t 
hush for long.
Guidance pulsing
in my chest, flashing 
in my searching eyes
won’t fail.  

My trusted friends 
will guard my path
knowing what I need.  
They hear my heart 
beat in my hand 
They’re seers who get
that even though
I just stand here
where I am,
even though I’m still,
like a willing post, a tree,
my intuition calls, 
whispers to my will
like the omniscient wind.  
My wisdom, power,
like my blood, my breath,
my storming fears,
all move at 
the appointed hour,
all flow right here,

all go where
what will be, will be
what I will make.   
Like everything 
that waits for me.  

Sweet Reward​ by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
15" x 23" (unframed)
21.5" x 29.5" (framed)
​$1308

​Poem by Dan Stone
Did you see the sign 
hanging on the door?
Were you surprised?
Sometimes we all need
to not be disturbed.
To settle down
and settle in,
to lose the last 
damn we had to give
and just remember 
how it feels to live
a little more,
to soak like pearls,
to chill like Chardonnay,

indulging nothing 
and nobody else. 
Not today. 
Seems a rather 
selfish blurb, yes?
Then I’ve said it well.  
I’ve earned this rest,  
learned my lessons,
honed my craft,
labored to release 
obsessions, passed 
several tricky tests.  
It’s my sweet reward 
to sink into this bliss
I’ve drawn, to read 

what someone else 
has paid their price to tell,
to dodge my woes
assemble every friend
who’ll heed my call
to leave me be
but still stay close
and love me,
even like this. 

Undefended by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
8" x 12" (unframed)
13.5" x 17.5" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
I’m not undone.  
Not barren, lost.  
Just wandering
in this scenic stillness
where I sit,
unencumbered.
Freed, from
everything I tried
to cover, hide,
all that I pretended 
was important,
worth the cost,
every nothing, numbered,
that I used to need. 

Do I seem weak?
Nonchalant?
Don’t be deceived.  
I’m strong because
I’m unprotected,
Invincible because
I know the me I want.  
Powerful because
I’m undefended.  
Believe your biases
if you will,
I won’t turn away,
offended, blaming
you for what 
you think you see,
condemning

your projections.   ​
​I’ve shed my outrage, too.  
Laid my false securities 
aside so I can nakedly
embrace the truth—  
my realization.  
If you came here
hoping for a name
that fits your misperceptions,
my condolences.  
A willing world awaits. 
If you came here looking
for a revelation,
this is it.  
You’re not a minute late.   

Seeing 20 20 by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
10" x 10" (unframed)
15" x 15" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
You think I’m tripping?
When you’re right,
you’re right.  
My eyes have so just 
popped open wide
taking in this cityscape, 
this rooftop view 
of this glorious 
whirling dervish world, 
and giving me 
a brand new ticket
to a brand new ride. 
I hope I sound 
as amped up
girly swirly as I feel
because to give 
you any other 
paler poorer saner 

anything but flaming
over-the-top impression 
would be,  well, 
a crime, a shame,
an actual sin.  
​Almost as bad 
as acting like it matters 
where I’ve been
or hanging from a name.  
That’s just so, then.  
No reminiscing 
from this perch, 
no missing 
what I’m seeing
while I’m seeing what 
I’ve never seen before.
This wilder blue beyond
is more and more 
what’s showing up 

what’s coming through
as crazy real, 
as crystal ringing true.  
It’s like I’m finally 
seeing 20/20
and I don’t know 
what to do 
except just love
this every single 
moment like I mean it,
like I’ve made it,
like I’d never trade it,
like I’ll sing it,
write it, paint it--
anything except 
explain it--
til you see it too.  

Free to Choose by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
14" x 14" (unframed)
19.5" x 18.5" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
There’s no easy way
to say this 
but we’ve got fake news.  
Here’s the phony update:
We actually care. 
We give a flying monkey
what you or they
think or say or do.  
You may have noticed 
that we’re dancing 
in the street.  
This is us not 
wondering if 
the passersby relate,
participate, approve,

or greet us with 
a backpack full of frowns
they lug around to unpack 
like a set of spikes 
to hold us down 
when our spirit flies
when we catch the wind
and spread our big
wide wings and rise.  
We may descend
but not for long. 
We may look nice 
but damn, we’re strong.  
You’re welcome, 
if you want to play,

to pick a tune
and feel your feet.
Our way of being’s
free to choose.
This easy fun, 
this breezy attitude
and sassy song
is yours to use. 
So leave or stay,
live it up or no,
but come what may,
this groove is on!

Simplicity by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
17" x 7" (unframed)
23.5" x 13.5" (framed)

Let’s not see more
than meets the eye.  
At least for now,
assume you can believe 
what is; no need
to read between 
these lines.  
No complications, 
no mysteries 
to disentangle.
No beneath the surface 
machinations calling
for your expertise, 
your practiced 
hands or peering scope.  

There’s nothing else
you need to know 
than this simplicity,
no deeper vein to mine, 
no hidden gold 
or rough edged diamond 
here to find,
to dig up, polish
like a reputation.
All I’m offering
is in my arms,
fragile, fresh,
magnificent 
but only for a while.  
I won’t object
if you resist, project,
because you are that free.  
But if you press, insist, 
I’ll just say “Nope,
expect no more 
than this.” 
The truth is only me.   

Saving Graces by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
16" x 8" (unframed)
23" x 15" (framed)

It’s sad but true,
the violent turn
the world has taken.  
Too few kind places. 
Too much talk on fire,
rhetoric raging, 
burning bitter, vile,
too many fists and voices
raised, protesting 
in too many crowds
spilling out in spaces
emptied of good choices,
stripped of ways to hoist 
prayer replaces 
terror and despair. 
Innocence and charity
remembered 
and reborn 

our dreams or lift
our fallen faces.  
So much so, that hearts 
and minds of men 
and gods are stirred
and shaken.
The temptation
would be fight or freeze, 
hide or hit or leave,
commence retaliation, 
no reprieve 
unless, until, some
light slips through
the narrow cracks, 
until a guileless ray
of faith returns,
a clasp of hands resumes, 
a single and collective 

displaces warring 
would-be kings, 
​lunatics and 
herded minions
like a goddess
born of heaven, Earth, 
rising, singing, ringing  
justice like a bell,
mercy and compassion
like a bunch 
of flowers held,
like three faces
of a longing 
promised unity,
like a holy trinity
of shining, 
saving graces. 

Matriculation by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
17" x 5.5" (unframed)
23.5" x 11.5" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
“You’re so tall.”
I’ve been hearing 
this like news
since I turned 
the corner 
from eleven to twelve.  
Since hormones 
started rocketing
toward the moon. 
It never made me
cool in school 
except in basketball.
Or when no other
arm could reach
the shelf.   
Thank the stars
not only in my eyes,
but strewn across
the hood 
of sky I wear, 
there came a time
I didn’t care. 
A sweet graduation.  

I’d learned all I could 
from afar, from others’ 
shorter observations.  
I’d done all I would
to earn 
matriculation.  
Now the ball
is in my long
and open court. 
I lead a team 
of willing birds
with only songs
to teach, 
and only dreams
to take long strides
toward, my only 
obligation—free
all my expectations,
Sing, stand up straight
and tall.  

Waiting by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
16" x 6" (unframed)
21" x 11" (framed)

Poem by Dan Stone
I  may have dropped 
the ball 
but I know when 
I’ve seen the sun
and when 
I’m being schooled.  
I know even something 
cool or shining can deceive.  
I know sometimes 
what I think I see 
is not to be believed.  
I trust my heightened 
senses, listen 
to the sounds 
that only I can hear.
I won’t be caught 
off guard. I choose 
when to lower
my defenses.
I know how 
to fetch the truth, 
to stay, waiting
for what leads.  
I say who I follow 
I say why, 
and rest assured,
true light never lies.   
Wise hearts 
won’t be fooled.  

Earlier Works:

A Splash of Spring by Cher Odum
Gouache & Gold Leaf on Paper
6” x 6” (unframed)
​13” x 13” (framed)
$248

Flowers For a Rainy Day by Cher Odum
Gouache & Gold Leaf on Paper
7.5” x 6” (unframed)
13.5” x 11.5” (framed)
$238

Pretty in Pink by Cher Odum
Gouache & Gold Leaf on Paper
6” x 6” (unframed)
13” x 13” (framed)
$248

Relish by Cher Odum
Gouache on Paper
25.5” x 17.5” (unframed)
29.5” x 23.5” (framed)
​$1038

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Fetch by Cher Odum
Gouache on  Paper
18” x 22.5” (unframed)
23” x 28” (framed)
$968

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​​Parent by Cher Odum
Gouache on Paper
11” x 8” (unframed)
19” x 15.5” (framed)
​$448

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Far From Lost by Cher Odum
Gouache on Paper
20.5 X 13.5" (Unframed)
30.5" X 22" (Framed)
​$998

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Referee by Cher Odum
Gouache on Paper
21” x 9.5” (unframed)
29.5” x 18” (framed)
$798

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This Harmony, Our Gift by Cher Odum
Gouache and Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper
​43.5" x 19.5" (framed)
​35" x 11" (unframed)

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Still Life by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
12.5” x 10” (unframed)
17” x 21” (framed)
​$588

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​Ease by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
32” x 24” (unframed)
43.5” x 35.5” (framed)
​$2298

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Until Then Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
21” X 17" (framed)
17” X 12" (unframed)
$538

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Company by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
21” x 16” (unframed)
32” x 28” (framed)
​$1288

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Loyalty by Cher Odum 
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
32" x 26" (framed)
$1248

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Fish Gotta Fly by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
11” x 8” (unframed)
17” x 14” (framed)
​$358

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Just Chill by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
7" x 7" (unframed)
​14" x 14.5" (framed)

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Inside Out by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
30.5” X 30.5" (framed)
​$1488

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May the Wind Always be at your Back by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper 
​13” x 9.5” (unframed) 
25" x 19" (Framed)

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Give me Time by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
​17" x 14" (framed)

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Genius in Disguise by Cher Odum
Gouache and Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper
30” x 18.5” (unframed) 
​41" x 29" (framed)

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Unity by ​Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
16.5” X 16.5" (framed)
10” x 10" (unframed)
​$388

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Maybe All that Matters
​by Cher Odum
Gouache on Paper
29" x 21" (unframed)
​43.5" x 35.5" (framed)
​$2298

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​Excuse Me by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
22" x 16.5" (unframed)
​33" x 27" (framed)

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AVAILABLE UNFRAMED (Please email for more information)

Holding Back by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
32" x 24" (unframed)

A Lady and Her Lily by Cher Odum
Gouache and Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper
​20.5" x 19.5" (unframed)

Fragile by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
22.5" x 18" (unframed)

My Life to Make by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
33.5" x 11.5" (unframed)

Life is Our Invention by Cher Odum
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
22" x 18" (unframed)