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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 14 W x 11 H x 0.7 D in
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I painted this after a moment of sudden insight that I would never heal my despair until I broke through the emotional pain that kept me frozen in place. I wanted to convey the obstacles that worked to prevent this. The black lines of barriers, fences, expectations and demands of others. The glowing white embryonic shapes exploding as they escaped from their skins. The colors blending and swirling to show the bright sparkly promise of new beginnings, new friendships, new goals. And a nebulous figure that draws from elements of everything else. I wanted to show the choice was to succumb and be seen as just another piece of the surrounding environment, or emerge as a singular, whole being using the despair to set a fire inside my soul.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14 W x 11 H x 0.7 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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I grew up in Las Vegas. I took my first art class in high school and knew then wherever my path led, it had to include art. In college I was certain that path was ceramics. But an old injury and a diagnosis of arthritis made working with cold and wet clay extremely painful. I had to quit. When I arrived in the Pacific Northwest the astonishing beauty of everything around me sent me back to my first love in high school, painting. I worked as a freelance graphic artist and designer from 2005 until I retired in 2018. No matter what I did to earn a living, I always painted, either with watercolors, acrylics, or in later years, digitally. I took part in my first studio tour this year where I sold both computer generated art and paintings. I use patterns as part of a larger whole in my abstract paintings to demonstrate the connection of all things to each other. The buildings in my cityscapes pick up color from the sky, the vegetation, and from their own reflections in the water. All the colors are connected not only to each other, but to everything else as well. As an artist in these divided times, I have a moral obligation to show how we are all connected, how we are all pieces of one whole. If a tree reflected in the water can explain how everything in nature is connected not only to its surroundings, but to us as well, then maybe we can begin to understand our divisions are not as solid as they seem. I also paint dark, impressionistic scenes, usually in blacks and grays, to show the emotional difficulties many face. The darkness in these images is the darkness in us that needs to awaken to what it truly means to be human. I want people to emotionally feel that darkness so they can develop a deeper understanding of their fellow humans in emotional turmoil.
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