wonders never cease

The Bridge House - Katy Serra ,  2025.

French , b. 1962 -

Choy Moo Kheong (Singaporean, born 1950) "Blue Whispering Day" (2022)

acrylic on canvas (139.7 x 114.3 cm)

“‘bright’ laser engraved text from the internet on found oyster shell. 2018”

This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.

If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "Grímnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.

◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – The sun / was ho/ney-bright / that af/ternoon