Our Whole is Sum-Thing Greater
Our Whole is Sum-Thing Greater
24” x 24” x 1.5”
Original painting on canvas with acrylic, papers, raw canvas, and
pencil.
Our Whole is Sum-thing Greater was originally created as a variation on the Portals of JOY series. After completing the 6th painting in the series, I decided to switch things up while continuing with the concepts of that series. So with this painting I added the textures and threads of the raw canvas.
Before painting, I covered a good portion of the canvas in a variety of textured papers and then added the beginning of the grid with pieces of raw canvas. The grid represents us as individuals but part of the whole. And the presence of the circular shape represents the wholeness, oneness, and unity that we all share. (Did you catch the essence of a Fibonacci spiral?)
There is a handwritten poem about joy incorporated within the painting yet somewhat hidden from view. These beautiful words were written by Rabindranath Tagore, a late 19th century/early 20th century Bengali poet: “The same stream of Life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in JOY through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”
The gallery wrapped canvas is painted and textured on the sides to coordinate with the image that appears on the front. The painting is signed and dated on the side.
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20” x 20” x 1.5”
Original acrylic mixed media painting on canvas
Stream of Life is a mixed media painting with loads of texture created with the use of cloth, paper, gauze, string, and acrylic mediums on canvas. It was developed through a slow process of exploration and play.
The handwritten text on the painting is a poem from Rabindranath Tagore, a poet from India. Here are his beautiful words:
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.”
The gallery wrapped canvas is painted on the sides to coordinate with the colors that appear on the front. The painting is signed and dated on the side.
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24” x 30” x 1-1/2”
Original acrylic and raw canvas painting with threads and text on canvas
For years I have wanted to create a painting with a focus on Lewis Carroll’s, Jabberwocky. I have loved it since high school.
Twas Brillig was designed with the goal of incorporating Carroll’s unique and wonderful words into the constructed book I’ve attached to the background canvas. The words of the poem spill out from the pages, as if the book’s boundaries could not contain them. The stretched canvas becomes the setting for the “book.”
This painting is part of a series I call Text-tures and this was another opportunity to play with the structure of the text. The strips of text and the book are made from raw canvas, which I cut and frayed before painting and stitching the pieces together.
Here are the words of the first and last stanzas of the poem for those of you unfamiliar with Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll and for those who would enjoy a reread:
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
The sides of this gallery wrapped canvas are painted to match the painting. It is signed and dated on the side of the canvas.