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Magic Moves Side to Side

4/30/2020

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"Magic Moves Side to Side" - acrylic on wood panel (baltic birch, uncradled) 24" x 24" x .5".  Ready to hang (back has been pre-wired for hanging).  Available here and at Artfinder.

Gravity moves up and down
magic side to side.
 - Alicia Jo Rabins, Fruit Geode


A day wandering through the trees atop an extinct volcano here in Portland left primordial daydreams in my head.  The towering pines, laden with birdsong and bee swarms, needed only a misty covering and the thundering of giant reptilian footsteps to transport us to the time of volcanic activity.  

The world "out there" seems in a hurry to resume and inundate with busyness again. Yet  I am still gathering moments of stillness.  I want to drag my feet in protest. 
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Magic Moves Side to Side
This same stillness is oppressive to my newly graduated son, recently returned home from university with his life put on pause just at the moment his momentum was mounting.  His feet ache to race forward, even as mine are stubbornly dragging.  Sometimes our feet all stop their nonsense and meet in the kitchen for conversation and coffee.  

The planets we strained to reach
That was how being young tasted...
​I am no longer young except to those who are older
​In the way that youth moves along 
The conveyor belt
At a consistent distance

- Alicia Jo Rabins, Fruit Geode


About the painting:  beginning with a greyscale composition, then adding thick layers of acrylic paint directly onto the board and blending with an extra large brush.  Spray bottle and water.  Then more paint and a fluffy dry-brushing.  This one nearly  painted itself - the paint knew just where it wanted to go.
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Dotty Seiter link
4/30/2020 01:34:37 pm

here we go sodeo, sodeo, sodeo
here we go sodeo all night long

to the front to the back to the see-saw side
(raffi)
--

whoa, you have got it goin' on here, jen!
in particular:
• the four trees one tree composition
• the light-and-shadow play
• the magic making itself known high up in the air zinging between tree two and three
• the patchwork bark of tree four

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jen
5/1/2020 01:07:33 pm

Dotty!!! Raffi! How perfect!!!! To the see-saw side! :) Thanks muchly for your comments on the piece - whoa! I like the way your eyes see....

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Carol Edan link
4/30/2020 01:53:06 pm

Yes it's magical to see a whale diving into forest. But the trees seem grounded in water so that's logical...or is it?

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jen
5/1/2020 01:08:09 pm

Carol! A whale! Water trees! Why not?? ha ha!

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Carl Stoveland
4/30/2020 03:43:11 pm

I have decided that the pace and the stillness suits me and encourages the muse to visit upon my studio. So even as the world returns to ‘normal’ I won’t return to the noise and pace and stress that we’re mostly self induced. I’m striving ever towards balance and clarity.

The painting is both peaceful and full of energy. Bravo.

CS

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jen
5/1/2020 01:10:38 pm

Carl! This pace and stillness sure has launched your creative work into space! It suits you perfectly. And thank you...this piece made me sigh contentedly - an unusual post-painting feeling. :)

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