Brightness

About the Book

Though "Brightness" casts shadows, the book is a celebration of Light.  Cabanos performs a solo danse de caractère, glissading through highs and lows, artistic and soulful striving, and familial reverie with an unselfconscious consciousness of self.  It isn't difficult to tell that "Brightness" is written by an artist who understands the conjugal dance of colors and emotions, who knows that existence is a living canvas.

David Herrle

About the Author

Joy Ann J. Cabanos grew up in Manila, the Philippines.  She moved to various cities in the US, lived in the UK, and traveled in England, France, Greece and Italy.    Her poems have been published in SubtleTea.com and Exit 13 Magazine.  A collection of her poems is featured in “The Baker’s Dozen Vol. 3”, an anthology of works by international poets published by The Cole Foundation, 2009. Joy is affiliated with South Mountain Poets (NJ).  As a painter, she has had several solo and group art shows and continues to exhibit locally and internationally. She is a member of the Westfield Art Society Drawing Group, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and the Contemporary Art Group (NJ.)

Joy’s  last solo art exhibit, “New Eyes” (at Windsor Street Gallery, Chertsey, UK) featured her paintings and poems together with great success.  “Brightness” grows out of that pairing.  This book reveals the essence of Joy’s artistic process, which finds her creating in the confluence of many loves:  color, line, image, words, phrase, story, song, music, dance, family, nature and spirit.