"It is not our differences that divide us.
-Adre Lorde
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This is the fourth in a series of paintings I'm doing for a delightful client. Chocolate...caramel...apples...what's not to love?!?!
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I attended an artist talk by Maria Palacios that was hosted by Art Spark Texas last week. Along with so many amazing things she told, showed, and taught us, she did a writing prompt. I used a wood panel for my writing, which then became a palette for a painting I was working on, and then it became the flowers you see below. You can see a bit of my writing at the bottom.
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Image description: a white vase with black spots and streaks with black and pink flowers in it. It is on a wood panel with writing that is mostly obscured at the bottom of the piece. The writing is upside-down.
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"The Universe is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There's a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff."
-Carl Sagan
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"Do not tame the wild within you;
embrace your passions;
be a savage to your dreams; seize the day;
embrace the restless warrior in you;
this is your life; find your inner strength;
you're free to choose."
-dch
This canvas has had several lives. In 2017 when #metoo was in the news I'd painted a young woman, owning both her fear and bravery. I'd used gesso and charcoal and you can still see some of her in the background. A couple of weeks ago I decided to paint over this piece and began using the canvas as a palette for a commissioned piece I'm working on. As I used more and more colors it became more and more powerful. I could feel the life force of the woman in the background coming through and I knew it was time to have this canvas become its own piece.
"Do Not Tame the Wild Within You"
Image description: an abstract painting with oranges, browns, whites, and golds. The gold paint shimmers and some of the white has black spots of different sizes and shapes painted on it. There are drips of India ink flowing down the canvas and squiggles/dots created with ink around some of the shapes created by the paint in the background. The India ink also shimmers.
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