...you will be there

"Life ends, love does not." - JoAnne Rivers

Michael John Lownie July 27, 1952 - February 23, 2025 photo by his partner John Carr

"Fleeting Hope" 199? acrylic on canvas 24"x48"

you will be there

when a soft swirl of clouds

lift our wishes into

a Lownie blue sky

Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, the view from room 1009 - January 2025

you will be there

when winter brings hard rain

and all our dreams wash away

"Desert Rose", 2008, acrylic on canvas, 20"x60"

you will be there

when the colors grade

from yellow to green to rose

GI Joe Series, assemblage 3"x3"x5"

we will see you

when big art fills small spaces,

when tiny art brings wide smiles,

Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, view from room 1002 where Michael spent nearly 8 weeks November - December 2024

and when a brilliant sun burns

the morning fog, a new knowing

clears the horizon, lifts our hearts

and there,

                you will be

Michael participated in the Hearts in San Francisco. The piece he is pictured with stood in San Francisco's Union Square. It was purchased by Intel and lives in their corporate headquarters. He made keychains for the rest of us.

"Grief, like love, is non-negotiable." - Nick Cave

No more words for now, just sadness. See you soon.