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Rain, Sun and Their Wanting

1/11/2022

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Rain, Sun and Their Wanting

​"Rain, Sun and Their Wanting" - acrylic and charcoal on Arches 300 lb paper, 22 x 30.  Available here and at Artfinder.

I would like
my living to inhabit me
the way
rain, sun, and their wanting
inhabit a fig or apple.

- 
Jane Hirschfield
I didn't notice it until recently, but I am in countdown mode.

Feeling the next birthday (still 6 months away) because it is a big one.  Though inside I feel more vibrant than ever, the narrative I associate with being a sixty year-old woman is untrue and unfair, but there it is, weighty and angst-filled.  I have six months to change that narrative.

Hirschfield's words are a guide.  I want to be inhabited by my living - by sun and rain, by mountains and oceans and paint.  To be inhabited by the smell of loam, the taste of feta cheese and the sounds of a softly-strummed guitar.  Inhabited by a morning snuggle and awakening crows.   Mmmmm.


About the art:  beginning with a rough charcoal sketch (photo right), then adding liberal amounts of water and titanium white to move the charcoal into various values.  Adding thin layers of color and resisting the urge to complete all the edges...letting them remain in process.  Focus on the eyes and mouth, the darks and lights.  Adding geometric blocks of color and allowing paint to run and create texture.

After a couple of weeks with this woman, I feel like we k now each other.  She requires nothing more to feel complete.
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Dotty Seiter link
1/11/2022 03:31:07 pm

Lola! Your fusion of face facts and fantasy, of geometry and gee-golly … is COMPELLING.

Here's one place you took me:

portrait > por•trait > por, meaning forth, forward, further, onward + trait from tractus, meaning draw, draft

COMPELLING

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lola (jen)
1/13/2022 01:48:00 pm

Dotty! WHOA! I love where you went with this! Now I am pondering your words and seeing this piece in new ways. xo

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Carol Edan link
1/12/2022 02:36:32 am

Age is in the mind! Not in the numbers! Love your portrait, especially the eyes, clear, straightforward, facing anything and everything that comes your way!

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lola (jen)
1/13/2022 01:48:43 pm

Carol! You are SO right! My mind feels so energetic and youthful...and thank you!!!!

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Thea link
1/12/2022 09:59:10 pm

I have been in a busy dance of nothingness I think because I missed a bunch of your blogs and am catching up. You are such a beautiful writer, I am always blown away and grounded and heartened by your words.Thanks for writing this blog.
Oh and wisdom on how to turn 6o is always appreciated, 3 years to go starting next week. Please publish detailed instruction manual. It will be very popular.
xo T

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lola (jen)
1/13/2022 01:50:10 pm

Thea! Thank you thank you thank you. Your encouraging words come at a time when I was wondering "does the blog still have a place in the world?" And there you are, giving this much appreciated validation.

As for turning 60, I will work on that manual...ha ha!

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