Walk So Lightly

"Walk So Lightly" - mixed media on gallery-wrapped canvas, 36" x 36" x 1.5".  Ready to hang.  Available here and at Artfinder.

So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.  -Aldous Huxley

I came across this article on Medium about letting go.  You know how it is - you read something that just resonates to the bone. After reading it,  I could feel myself exhale, relax, loosen, unwind.  I didn't know I was holding on so tightly.

Lightly, my darling, on tiptoes says Huxley.  Which seems counterintuitive during tumultuous times.  Completely unencumbered he advises.  I contemplate this less than 24 hours after a man died in my own neighborhood, killed by multiple gunshots while walking in broad daylight.  The same stretch of sidewalk I walk each day with my tiny, ridiculous dog.

Walk So Lightly

There it is - that quicksand Huxley describes.  Fear.  Despair.  And so instead I breathe through it,  cast away the fear and go forward. Optimism is a superpower.  And it weighs nearly nothing.

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About the art:  this is the final piece from the Expressive Seascapes workshop with Pauline Agnew.  The goal in creating this painting was to abstract a big wave!  There are the requisite 80 million layers in this one.  Mostly one glaze over another, leaving both sharp, geometric spaces and hard edges along with soft, murky sections.  Primary tools were a large dry brush, spray water bottle and rubber wedge shaper.

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It is SO exciting to be participating in my first ever online art auction with the incredible Artistic Souls Gallery!  August 2 - 3 only.  Stop by on Facebook to see all the amazing art, and to snag yourself one of these lovelies. 

Thought-Full

Avifaunal Emissary

Optimism is a Superpower (Monday Magic event - August 3 only)

Incoming Moon-Tide

Dream a Little Dream (Reserve piece)