Dolores on Tuesday

Dolores on Tuesday

"Dolores on Tuesday" - oil on cradled wood panel, 24 x 12 x 1.25.  Ready to hang. (click on the image to purchase)

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”― C.S. Lewis

Sometimes, when we peel back the onion of anger, we find deep sorrow, grief and mourning.

Anger feels purposeful, feisty, empowered, action-oriented and (often) satisfying.  Grief, on the other hand, feels all of the opposite things - weak, low-energy, motionless, heavy.  It is so much easier to be mad than to be sad.

And so I am learning to be with my grief.  To let the feelings wash over and through me, buffeting me about a bit, seeping into all the nooks and crannies.  I am learning to be uncomfortable without pushing it away.  The more I practice this, the easier it gets.  And somehow, it is expansive.  I feel larger inside, instead of tense and tight and retracted.  

Dolores relaxes into her grief and oddly manages to make it look cool.  Who knew?

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About the art:  for this piece, I wanted to experiment with flat colors, line and contrast.  A long, flat brush held at a distance.  Hard edges.  A paint-laden rubber wedge pulled across under layers.  Unexpected color. Deep darks.  Oh!

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