LADY OF THE LOCH

​"Lady of the Loch" - mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, 16" x 20".  SOLD

​Let's take a departure from abstraction and experimentation this week and make a deep dive into the loch, where dark blue-green falls into the murky void and the cold waters harbor all manner of secrets and mysteries.  

This piece is many weeks in the making.  More layers than I can count.  More mystery than I can unravel.  She is loch and lock and Locke.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

She is watching and seeing and interpreting.  She seems knowing, but our conversations have been one-sided: me asking her questions, her looking away knowingly.

Lady of the Loch

Though she is wearing away, she appears solid.  I wondered what that meant.  And then, well, not Nepo, but someone Nepo quoted (see how tangled this web is?):

With each passing (and passage), there is a further wearing away of the layers or coverings that obscure our essential selves.  And so, as we say "goodbye" again and again, we feel thinner, narrower, more naked, more transparent, more vulnerable in a palpable, holy way" - ELESA COMMERSE  (as quoted in Mark Nepo's Things That Join the Sea and Sky)

Just like that, I can see glimpses of her essential self revealed under the waters of the loch.  Not quite unlocked, but less obscured.   And so are we, dear reader, with passing and passage, more vulnerable in holy ways.