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INNER FOREST Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 14 W x 11 H x 0.7 D in
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About The Artwork
I have always found the inner workings of the human creature fascinating. We respond. We don’t respond. We perceive and shape according to who we are and what we experience in our lives. This painting is a visual representation of how we respond to life from the inside. The blue background represents sky and water, the naked bones of our existence before we fill it in with our lives. The barely visible rough outlines of silver squares are what we see and feel, a sort of inner holding pen for truths we don’t yet understand about ourselves. The lines are faint because it takes time to learn they exist, but they still exist, even without our awareness, and they shape us from the inside. The black squares are more visible because we are more aware of their existence. They are the socially acceptable squares, the community receptacles for anger, despair, laughter, joy, and love. We share these with others because we have them in common with each other. We may not love the same, but we all love. We may not feel the same about anything, but we feel, so the black squares hold our common truths. The black lines spark and dance over and through these squares as we continue to categorize our visual perceptions throughout life in a communal, acceptable sense. They let others see the this but not that of who we are. They draw like-minded people to us and repel those who are too different, too outside our safe boundaries. The gold lines represent what is not visible about us until it reveals itself through passion, emotional depths, and especially the power of love. The flame-like gold lines dance with everything else. They shape us and give substance to what and how we feel. They are the light inside us we either embrace, or we let it die away from the lack of courage to live authentically. They are the pieces of us that ignored the demands of the herd.
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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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