“embracing the dark #1”
“Embracing the dark #1” (this painting comes framed even though the frame is not pictured above)
16” x 40” Acrylic, pencil, silver leaf on canvas in a hand-built pine frame made by the artist.
This painting is on sale for $400
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“embracing the dark #2”
“Embracing the dark #2” (The coloring is the same between these two and the frame is actually even on all sides- any flaws are due to image cropping)
SOLD
16” x 40” Acrylic, pencil, silver leaf on canvas in a hand-built pine frame made by the artist.
This painting is on sale for $400
Purchase both for $700
*Shipping not included
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“Embracing the Dark”
Do not deny the beauty of the dark outside your window. For the window out is the window in.
Do not retreat in misery wishing for frolicking sunny days whenever
the skies are weeping and the gale winds are moaning through the creaky trees bending under the misty grey gloom...
As though you could be relieved of your own shadow.
Do not despise those endless cold drop-ceiling days that may as well be nights.
Dare to savor the contrast instead.
To Let the dreary be!
Rather than seeking to extinguish the dark with light
remember that you are the weather,
Ugly and beautiful
Mournful and joyful
Whole and grateful
Fluctuating and change-full.
Take in all the many seasons and gradations of grey (that are you)
Wrap soft glistening tendrils of hope around the malnourished places
that are hard to love about you
Feed the darkness with curiosity instead of brightness
Look beyond what you think you see
And invite the gloom to be itself completely.
Ponder its stories
Revel in its mysteries
Allowing the dark
(inside/ outside)
to unveil its strange beauty-
to feel at home
in the embrace of you.
Paintings are portals. What do you see? Feel free to let me know in the message box above!