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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 8 W x 10 H x 0.5 D in
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I chose the title of this painting based on a line from one of my favorite poems by Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day.” Here’s the poem - Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? With my one precious life, I plan to love. And to me, loving means valuing compassion, joy, justice, openness, and connection, expression, and truth. It means paying attention to the people and world around me. It means sharing what I’ve got to give, whether that’s my art, my voice, my writing, my time. And it means truly being here, right here. This painting has several layers of paintings underneath that look very different than the result. Similarly, my life can’t be boiled down to one moment or one very tangible thing. And that’s just fine with me - living is wild, messy, and all the more precious.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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My art expresses the intricacies of being alive. Consciousness is full of interrelated opposites such as darkness and light, change and constancy, stillness and movement. This concept of duality is core to my paintings, drawings, and mixed media works. I use texture, color, line, and medium choices as well as abstraction, realism, and text to represent different slices of human perception. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I struggled to keep myself alive during my teenage years and early adulthood. My artwork reflects my own story, healing process, and grief as well as my observations from nature, research, and everyday life. Each artwork can stand alone to depict a certain layer or aspect of the human experience, but I also continually group and connect them like fluctuating puzzle pieces building my ever-growing picture of existence.
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