Bridge Out of the Abyss Painting

I like to cut into the surface of the painting as a reminder of the façade, the Maya, a gorgeous brutal illusion, what we see is only part of the picture. I have always escaped into fantasy, for better or for worse. As a child I played in the woods with moss and bark and trees, making fairy houses and imagined I could live there too. I am fascinated by the hidden and secret aspects of a piece of art and create them with layering of images and these little inner scenes that can be viewed through the 2 openings in this painting. I started with the sky in this painting as the space or the peace or the God that is always available, always there, but gets covered over by thinking and working… in the case of this painting I’m painting about looping, intricate, loud thoughts like cogs in a machine clicking and clanking, but most of them, not highly effective – which is alluded to with the highly textured monotone yellow. Our mind can weave a kind of insanity that blocks the way forward, which is what I experienced when I couldn’t stop drinking alcohol, even though I wanted to. At the time I painted this I was living on the Danube in Budapest, showing art in different countries; all very exciting. But my life was also tangling, twisting, and destructing at a fast rate. The rose represents a violence, the kind of violence in our lives that is for our highest good – if we are able to follow the urgings that come to us. We must have contrast, something to push against, something that opposes us, so that we can have a reason to make different choices that bring joy and weightlessness, sparkle and magic. I did not fix myself. We don’t grow the rose, we can clear the ground, make choices about placement, sun, hydration. The rose grows not because we will it, but because it is inevitable, reliable life. I make different choices, plant different seeds and surrender to the forces that be, and roses grow in my life instead of confusion.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:40.5 W x 61 H x 2 D in

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