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"Come to Your River" - acrylic on cradled wood panel, 11 x 14. Ready to hang. Available Feb 20-21 at Artistic Souls Gallery.
Come to your river
I will come to your river
I will come to your river
Come to your river
(Wash my soul)
I will come to your river
(Wash my soul)
I will come to your river
Wash my soul again
Carry away my dead leaves
Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters
Sink my pains and complains
Let the river take them, river drown them
My ego and my blame
Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters
Those all means are so ashamed
Let the river take them, river drown them
- IBEYI
Come to your river
I will come to your river
I will come to your river
Come to your river
(Wash my soul)
I will come to your river
(Wash my soul)
I will come to your river
Wash my soul again
Carry away my dead leaves
Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters
Sink my pains and complains
Let the river take them, river drown them
My ego and my blame
Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters
Those all means are so ashamed
Let the river take them, river drown them
- IBEYI
Come to Your River
The inspiration for capturing emotion often begins with a song. This song sits in the cradle of my emotional anchor and undulates like waves. Let the river drown my "pains and complains..my ego and my blame." oh yes, yes please.
About the art: beginning with a black gesso'd background and working from dark to light. A colored pencil scribble sketch, layers of watery paint in light washes. Resisting the desire to overly define, allowing color to speak a story and dark shapes to define the features.
4 Comments
Stark, bare, bared, contemplative, a little off kilter, holding a hint of inner laughter—all showing themselves here.
Dotty! Thank you, lovely one. Your comment made me grin! I so enjoyed creating this one...stripped down to the bare bones and yet full of many things. xo
Those eyes say it all! Contemplative and forgiving! Do not know where you find the time/energy to create with all those hikes!
Carol! Thank you so very much. I am quite delighted with this piece. And well, we can't hike every day, so on the other days, I paint! ha ha!
