This is an oil painting I did in the first year after I was widowed. I was rediscovering myself…you could see by my use of bright colors that I was beginning to emerge from my deep sadness…beginning to feel alive again. Beginning to rediscover my joyful self. Looking at it now, I can also see the ethereal, fleeting shapes and fragments as symbols of my own feelings of no longer having a sense of belonging or trust in things in my life being solid or “forever.” This painting has been hanging in my dining room on my mango colored wall…and it has always made me feel very happy, yet peaceful, when I look at it. It was the beginning of my coming alive again. A glimmer of the life and creativity the still existed inside of me.
Details: Oil paint on canvas, 18″ x 18″ w/custom frame fashioned from vintage wood
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