A Sweet Repeat - It's Not The End of the World

"It's Not the End of the World" - oil on gallery-wrapped canvas, 24" x 24" x 1.75". Ready to hang (back has been pre-wired for hanging)  Available for purchase here and at Artfinder.  Available for rental at GettheGallery.

​Completed during an online workshop with the incredible Pauline Agnew  earlier this year, this painting reminds me of what can happen when I bust out of my normal routine and try new things...like the squeegee, which made this piece MOVE in a way I could not have otherwise accomplished.

It is a symbolic painting as well.  The end of one world is also the beginning of another...and therefore not the end of the world at all.  It has been a year of redefining where I am in the world, both physically and conceptually.  What felt perilous in one moment opened the door to amazement in the next.

It's Not the End of the World

And so I find myself contemplating reframing.  

Not the painting, no, it hangs free of frame.  But the way I think of things.  What if - WHAT IF - I could stop and reframe in the very moment of standing on the edge of that swirling pool of mist?  What if I could tell myself this thing that is happening right now feels like the end of the world...and so it is also the beginning of something else, perhaps even better.  I guess we would all like to do that, dear reader, shift perspectives in the very moment.  And so we can.  If we practice. If we intend.  If we stay present and pause.  

I hope you will remind me that I wrote this, the next time I stand on the edge? :)

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Blog and blogger will be on a lovely break next week for the holidays, which, for us, will include a highly competitive no-holds-barred ugly sweater conception, creation and modeling competition which is sure to have our entire family questioning its normalcy and sanity.  I wish you and yours a delightful malarkey-filled holiday!