Smiling Sadhu
11×13 inches Approx.
Mixed media on paper
I do love this new series. It is special.❤️
Some paintings just paint themselves. It is not like there was no effort. More like it wanted to emerge just the way it did. It is a process of removing and adding pigment to get the desired result. And in that process, every day I lose myself and every day I find myself. Changed from what I was and yet still me, or maybe more me…
This series says a lot about what I am going through in life right now. It is that stage in life we all go through – a universal human condition, but with nuances specific to each of us. The kids are growing up way too fast, and the parents are ageing as am I. My body and mind are going through changes that I can’t seem to control. Though I am trying to!????
These paintings on this paper mirror those struggles quite well, I think. There is my past printed on those sheets, all used up, but a ghost of that past remains. And I am constantly reworking it to something that makes sense in the present. It is my past and my present, my struggles and triumphs on one sheet of paper. Paper that most would have discarded. There is chaos, and yet there is order in that chaos. I don’t have all the answers, but just like these paintings, it all comes together to make sense. Uniquely me.☺️
