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It's No Use Going Back to Yesterday
"It's No Use Going Back to Yesterday" - acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, 24" x 30" x 1.5" Ready to hang. Available here and at Artfinder.
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll
I have spent a lot of time in yesterday.
More than yesterday deserves, I believe. I have also spent a lot of time in tomorrow, which clearly has not yet earned a moment of my attention.
Full confession, the lands of what if, maybe when and if only have also received way too many of my mental travel dollars. And it isn't always a pleasant vacation there, if you know what I mean. I think their travel ads read something like "MAYHEM! DISASTER! FAILURE and FROWNS! Come to what if and every awful thing can be YOURS!" I mean, who are their writers and why are they in my thoughts?
More than yesterday deserves, I believe. I have also spent a lot of time in tomorrow, which clearly has not yet earned a moment of my attention.
Full confession, the lands of what if, maybe when and if only have also received way too many of my mental travel dollars. And it isn't always a pleasant vacation there, if you know what I mean. I think their travel ads read something like "MAYHEM! DISASTER! FAILURE and FROWNS! Come to what if and every awful thing can be YOURS!" I mean, who are their writers and why are they in my thoughts?
The beauty of Carroll's words is this: we are truly not the people we were just a day before today. And that also means we are not who we will be tomorrow. No sense going back. Even less sense going forward. I suppose I should hang out here in today for now. And for now. And now, too. :)
About the art: Using a hike photo as a compositional reference and a Monet painting as a palette reference. Varying brush, wedge, paper towel and fingers (no forearms in this one!) and moving around the painting constantly. Resisting the urge to reproduce the photo. The most challenging part was keeping my hands off the bolder colors. But it was the right thing to do. Loving the softness of this one.
About the art: Using a hike photo as a compositional reference and a Monet painting as a palette reference. Varying brush, wedge, paper towel and fingers (no forearms in this one!) and moving around the painting constantly. Resisting the urge to reproduce the photo. The most challenging part was keeping my hands off the bolder colors. But it was the right thing to do. Loving the softness of this one.
You immediately evoke a memory of the quotation I selected for my yearbook photo senior year in h.s. From T. S Eliot in "Burnt Norton"--
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Love your pastels, go great with the greys!