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Under the Morning Moon

8/28/2023

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Under the Morning Moon
"Under the Morning Moon" - oil on canvas, 26 x 31.5 x 1.  Ready to hang.  Available here, at Artfinder and at Bluethumb.

“The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.” - GRACE PALEY on growing older.
I suppose I am at an age where I spend a bit of time thinking about, well, age.

Time seems to run faster the older I get.  And quite a few people who once were are no longer.  It isn't a morbid dwelling or preoccupation that I have, just a recognition of what time it is (in my life) along with a sense of ​preciousness.

When Paley's quote crossed my path, a part of me sighed and thought "THIS!"  Yes, holding my own heart in my two hands in the morning  - it sets me on a path of cherishing the day and myself within it.  Mostly.  But it is an excellent start to things.


​About the art:  inspired by some very stylized and abstracted figure suggestions from the AI bot and then rendered with my own particular twist.  Beginning with a toned stretched canvas and sketching with loose, liquin-thinned oil paint.  Working from the faces outward and using color and highlights to draw the eye to the intimate moment in the center.  Carving through wet paint with a very small rubber wedge to create movement in the clothing and background.  Resisting the urge to overly define - letting the paint abstract slightly as it moves away from the figures.
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Dotty Seiter gmail link
8/28/2023 07:58:57 pm

I'm not waiting till morning. I'm taking my heart in my two hands right NOW, and then AGAIN tomorrow morning and the next and the next.

So much unspoken story to be plumbed here in UNDER the MORNING MOON, so much mystery.

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Lola
8/29/2023 02:42:17 pm

Dotty!!! OMG you always have me grinning and feeling connected...yes and YES! Why wait until morning??? xo

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Carol Edan link
9/2/2023 01:09:17 am

"just a recognition of what time it is (in my life) along with a sense of ​preciousness." So relate! Thanks for introducing me to Grace Paley! Grateful for each morning and day!
Enjoy every minute! They go by so fast!

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lola
9/2/2023 02:35:13 pm

Carol!!! I am sending you the biggest hug....grateful indeed! xo

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