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The Residue of Yesterday and Bend the Knee

3/14/2019

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The Residue of Yesterday
"The Residue of Yesterday" - acrylic on paper, 16" x 10.5" .  "Bend the Knee" - acrylic on paper, 15.5" x 13".  Each available here and at Artfinder.
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The studio was quiet for about a week.  

The space was cleared, air mattress inflated, suitcases piled in corners.  There was a different kind of mojo percolating - family, frivolity, feasting.  We spent a lot of time reminiscing (and laughing - oh!  Those kids!) and also reflecting.  The past year has put many in our family  on the other side of some sort of surrender.  Our shared stories were fodder for new strength.

It was no surprise afterward when the life drawing models assumed poses which echoed surrender.  Life has a way of making us bend the knee under the residue of yesterday.

There is an exquisite catharsis after a shared surrender.  A metamorphosis of transformation - like the miracle of composted garbage turned into soil.  Sorrows given words take wing and become light and airborne, leaving us behind with a gift of residual wisdom.

Over the past few years, the collaboration between myself and author Mary W. Cox has been a form of cyber catharsis.  A painting floats on the internet, burdened with emotion and waiting to be released.  A haiku frees the emotion from the art and transforms it into wisdom and hope.  We are so fortunate to have this connection and oddly wonderful creative process.

The weight of the actual book will feel satisfying in our hands - like a sleeping newborn, filled with the endless potential of the universe.  It arrives any day now!
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Bend the Knee

Share in the transformation!  Pre-order your copy of becoming SUNRISE - A Collaboration by Mary W. Cox and Jen Walls.  64 pages of haiku and full color art.  Thank you so much for your support!
  
4 Comments
Carol Edan link
3/18/2019 06:11:54 am

The vacuum will soon be filled! There is something very strong in these figure studies. The silhouette, almost masked face against the sub-duded background. The strong brushstrokes! The giant curves of the body, It all speaks of reflection, perhaps some pain. But they are yesterday and we are in our today

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jen
3/18/2019 12:03:52 pm

Carol, I so appreciate your feedback! You have such a strong command of the figure in your work. I'm leaning in to the abstraction of the figure...slowly, slowly.

We ARE in our today! Present moment = only moment!

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Dotty Seiter link
3/18/2019 08:49:34 am

Sorrows given words take wing and become light and airborne, leaving us behind with a gift of residual wisdom.

Thank you!

The layers, linework, ridges, suggestions in Residue: I keep going back to explore.

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jen
3/18/2019 12:05:56 pm

Thank you for exploring, dear Dotty! The layers are the key, I think. Along with the unexpected line. I feel like I am getting to know the story of each figure as I paint them - the layers revealing both form and emotion.

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