Ayo Gutierrez

Chiaroscuro Ayo Gutierrez

The word chiaroscuro is Italian for light and shadow. It is one classic technique used in the works of artists like Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and da Vinci. It refers to the use of light and shadow to create the illusion of light from a specific source shining on the figures and objects in the painting. Chiaroscuro is a volume of poetry with a formidable fluidity and clarity of expression, and the expressive instruments are written in a remarkable meditative tone. The choice of a term that designates a graphic and pictorial process with which to obtain the rendering of volumes, perspective and the depths of the image by gradually rendering shadows and light as the title of the volume is most inspired. Each poem of the author reaches the highest thresholds of the lyrical art through the finesse of the landscape drawing, the fragility of the chromaticity of the words, and the purity of the feelings dominated by the candor of wise discoveries with a great capacity to emphasize the concrete. The lyrical vein of the poems is also very finely exploited, with a special charm of evocation. Chiaroscuro is not just another poetry book that we usually browse through and in a few days, the experience would be somewhere in the backburner of our routine humdrum. Chiaroscuro is the kaleidoscopic microcosm of metaphorical munificence. It is birthed to infuse bountiful courage, and experiential attributes in you, both as a reader and as a writer. It is multifarious, in terms of the way it branches out, as you flip page after page, through some pages you will joyously grab its ethereal magic, through some pages you will swing in its hammock that girdles both azure and abyss, while you are smitten by its enchanting, unyielding spirit. Ayo is all about courage, living life to the fullest, and singing songs of her creation. Chiaroscuro succeeds on every level with insightful memory, optimism for the future, and a clearly expressed knowledge and understanding of today's world.