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Inescapable and Inevitable

11/12/2020

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"Inescapable and Inevitable" - acrylic on cradled wood panel, 12" x 12" x .75".  Ready to hang (Sides are painted; no need to frame.  Hanging wire attached)  Available here and at Artfinder.

Our hope to circumvent heartbreak in adulthood is beautifully and ironically child-like; heartbreak is as inescapable and inevitable as breathing, a part and a parcel of every path, asking for its due in every sincere course an individual takes, it may be that there may be not only no real life without the raw revelation of heartbreak, but no single path we can take within a life that will allow us to escape without having that imaginative organ we call the heart broken by what it holds and then has to let go.
- David Whyte, Consolations


What is it about the forest that unlocks my heart and lets the floodgates open?  It seems I cannot enter that holy place without the rawness of what is real inside spilling over into the daily normal I so carefully cultivate as a modern human.  Nature, it seems, is there to strip away the outer shell of my humanity and leave me with the very real essence of what is me.
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Inescapable and Inevitable
I don't mind it, that place of real being.  It reminds me of what I have chosen - to be open-hearted and vulnerable in the world.  The price of admission to open-heartedness is that moment of surrender to what we cannot control or change.  Acceptance.  I open my two hands and release that which I have held closely, allowing it to transform into whatever it will be,

About the art - This is the first piece in a new series, called "A View from the Gorge".  There is an experimental technique here - choosing wood panel for its very woodiness, scraping through very wet paint to expose the wood grain as part of  simulated trees.  As always, trying to hover on the edge of abstraction and realism.  Choosing a fluorescent underpainting as the most unlikely of starts, but knowing that sometimes the light in the gorge actually does have an otherworldly luminescence.  
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Dotty Seiter link
11/12/2020 09:24:09 am

I open my two hands and release that which I have held closely, allowing it to transform into whatever it will be.

whoa.

I clap my hands together several times to applaud the depth, mystery, and complexities of the heart reflected here in the woodiness of both your substrate and your subject.

whoa.

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jen
11/12/2020 06:35:20 pm

Dotty...thank you so much. Sometimes words and art are perfectly coupled. This one feels a little magical. :)

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Carl Stoveland
11/12/2020 09:48:04 am

Another stunning painting Jen! I find the realism / abstraction thing resonates in real life as well. The Who I am versus The Who I am on the world. The masks we wear etc. I’m in a journey fir the inner me and outer me to match, but it’s a lifetime’s training I’m going against. :-)

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jen
11/12/2020 06:36:29 pm

Carl! "Who I am" vs "Who I am in the World" - YES! Like you, I seek to have them become one. Living authentically, even when it is uncomfortable. xo

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Carol Kitchell link
11/12/2020 06:18:43 pm

Girl, did this hit home today. Sometimes the words find the broken heart. And the painting is just beautiful - you always amaze with your inventiveness.

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jen
11/12/2020 06:38:10 pm

Carol....thank you! I love it when words and art resonate across cyberspace. Though the subject is a hard one, I know you are one of those humans following the "sincere course" that lands us sometimes in the space of broken-heartedness. Big hugs, my friend!

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Carol Edan link
11/13/2020 02:41:42 am

What a strong diagonal! Your roots are like figures reaching up! A curtain is opening to let in all the emotions.

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jen
11/13/2020 09:26:10 pm

Carol! Thank you! I seem to be drawn to the diagonals lately. And those ROOTS! I love how they turned out. A curtain opening....yes. xo

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