Daily Art- Ego Death
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“Dreaming Summer” from the Choir Series #10
18″ x 24″
Original Oil Painting
Finished Sides, ready to hang
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Here is the quote that helped the work along:
I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.
~Amos Ferguson
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This work took some time to tell me when she was ready to be finished. Small details is all she asked for and that’s what I gave her. The textures in the background and the green foreground are subtle, but vital to the energy of the work. Her wings are stilling themselves from her flight so are slightly blurred. Her gown brings the fiery reds and deep oranges of the “anything is possible” of an Indian Summer. She smells of fresh cut grass, sunshine on the lavender fields and the earthy dust of opportunity.
She reminds me that this is not the time to trap myself within virtue. I do not need to be caught on the treadmill of doing what is “right”, I must release my expectations of what I am learning, and allow the growth to happen. Transition isn’t supposed to feel good, or none of us would ever make it through it at all. I am what I am, I am doing what I need to be doing, and the Universe will provide the necessary synchronicities to happen as I continue my act of spiritual faith in myself and the greater power of the Original Creator, faith that I can channel that creative energy, faith that I can use it for good in my life and in every life I may touch, or know; faith in the love for every living thing. I accept what I am asking for, I will work hard, remain true to myself and look no gift horse in the mouth.
So be it.
May your day be filed with turquoise possibilities and golden opportunities.
Heather
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Detail (click to enlarge)
Detail
Detail (click to enlarge)
‘City Lights’
18″x 24″
Oils
Ready to hang, needs no frame, finished sides
$185.00 + 25.00 Shipping anywhere inside the USA
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Here is the quote that goes with the work:
“This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.”
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“Thrive” from the Choir Series #12
24″ x 36″
oils
Back Stapled/ready to hang with finished sides
$285.00 + 45.00 (shipping is expensive on this painting because it’s over-sized to ship, this is large wall art) Shipping to anywhere inside the USA
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Here are the quotes that inspired the work:
THRIVE:
“In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.”
~Kent Nerburn Source: Letters to My Son: A Father’s Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love, Page: 40
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
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“Her Story”
24″ x 30″
Oils/Oil paint pens
Here is the Quote that goes
with this work:
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
~Helen Keller
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This work has been in progress for more than a year, finished on 5/16/08.
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Her Story : Well it’s all of our stories isn’t it? Our personal travels,
experiences, lessons, baggage some say. I say it’s my story and it only can
run and or ruin my life if I give it power too. I have a story, just as you do. My
story has heroes, risks, lessons, devils, dragons, mountains and roads.
It’s mine.
It maybe the only thing I get to take with me as they say, my story.
I leave it open, I leave a ace of spades for a bookmark; my Moments, are
now, the desire is not to shed my past, but to incorporate it into the whole
picture.
I get to write the ending though.
I get to write the ending.
I am what I am because of every single thought, experience, choice made,
choices not made, love had, love lost. I am what I am because of my story.
I have no shame.
We have all suffered, it’s the suffering I feared.
I no longer Fear.
The opposite of Fear is not Courage,
It is Love.
Living in the moment,
I can accept every line on my aging
face as testament to the many thousand
battlefields, and miles over come
to be here today.
As I am.
We all have a story.
We all have a terminal illness.
It’s called Birth.
I’m living like it’s my last ten seconds.
Balls to the Wall.
Strap it on.
All out.
Full steam ahead.
A good friend recently commented that my work
made her think that I was a person that did what she wanted to do,
regardless, and screamed at people to “Be Happy!”
[with my work, not literally].
I think she is right,
I am doing those things,
and I would add only one thing,
to hone not to destroy her sentiment,
“Be Happy Right Here & Now!”
For it’s all we may have in the end; living without regrets,
don’t miss it.
I don’t want to dismiss, I want to embrace.
I want personal freedom.
I release my resistance.
This is my Story.
Well, One of them.
Where is your story taking you?
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Thank you for reading, have a great day.
Heather
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Behold! Modern Man
24″ x 60″ (including the tail)
Canvas itself is 24″ x 30″
Finished sides, needs no frame
oils, mixed media (lots & lots)
Behold! Modern Man is a multi-mixed media event.
A work of art it is, but it is also an event unto itself.
It’s a work that you must see in person, you need to touch it, you need to
see the shadow the kite tail makes against your wall, you need to see how
the prayer flags move in the slightest stirring of air currents, you need to
know what they have written upon their frail surfaces.
Honestly I have found things that over the weeks as I have worked this
message in a bottle out of my head, that I don’t remember putting in.
It all done in, flash moments, work came together.
I found the vintage toy paper flag at a tag sale years ago.
Folded and mostly intact.
Aged, used, saved and loved.
The vintage, real not copies, ration stamps from the world war years came
next, they too had been saved, stored, kept and horded; themselves still a
symbol of some faceless person, of their fear for and love of those in their
care.
The clay project rejects came out of a box a few weeks back, I remember
when I was packing them, why are you taking up limited room for rejects?
Because I am a lover of rejected things. Simple.
Now their use is clear, of course they were headed to the bluegrass in a
brown cardboard box; their truths to be told here in this event. Proud they
are not the side show; the freak tent; they are sculptures of symbolic
meaning, sacred totems, not rejects, no not at all.
Toys, I love small plastic or otherwise toys.
Pocket stuff.
I collect it every where I go.
Mementos of lives lived.
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Have a great day!
Heather
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