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Immensity Taps at Your Life

11/23/2020

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​"Immensity Taps at Your Life" - acrylic on cradled wood panel, 12” x 24” x .75”.  Available for a limited time exclusively at Get the Gallery  Part of the collection "A View from the Gorge"


​It is foolish
to let a young redwood   
grow next to a house.

Even in this  
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.

That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books--

Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.  
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Tree, by Jane Hirschfield
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Immensity Taps at Your Life
Vast roots hold trees of unbelievable size on cliff edges and along rock walls, defying the howling winds that whip through the gorge and push the branches forever in one direction or another.  Standing next to this immensity after hours of climbing higher and higher leaves me feeling small.  Sure, I climbed the  mountain.  But this “great calm being” has been holding on to the same mountain for a lifetime.

About the art:  I return to scraping back into unprimed wood panel - this time on a much larger scale.  Allowing the movement of the paint to dictate the tree branches and the revealed wood panel to become the texture of the tree. This requires some fast, intuitive work as the surface paint must not be allowed to fully cure before scraping through to the wood.  I continue to focus on unexpected colors and in resisting the urge to perfect every branch, instead allowing the viewers eye to follow the suggested movement of the tree into the fluorescent canopy.
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7 Comments
Carl Stoveland
11/23/2020 10:54:24 am

That is staggeringly good! Bravo Jen!

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jen
11/23/2020 05:13:54 pm

Carl! WOOOOOOOOOOT! What an amazing comment! Thank you!

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Dotty Seiter link
11/23/2020 11:31:06 am

Jen, your paintbrush and other tools are taproots drawing deeply from the immensity of your creative energy. Holy gobsmackers!

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jen
11/23/2020 05:14:22 pm

Dotty! I always wanted taproots! Thank you so much. xo

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Carol Kitchell link
11/23/2020 01:35:06 pm

Jen, this is a wonderful series. I'm really taking inspiration from how you link words with the painting series you do. I'm frequently asked what comes first for me, the image or the words. How about for you?

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jen
11/23/2020 05:15:34 pm

Carol, absolutely! I often wonder if what I see influence what I paint, and if what I paint draws meaning from what I then read. But always they are paired together, like your photographs and images. It is wondrous!

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Carol Edan link
11/24/2020 01:55:41 am

Tenacity, strength, flowing, all things we can learn from a tree!

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