This original acrylic painting features two blue metal chairs and their long shadows against a warm pink checkered background.
The title of this piece is “Becoming Is An Act Of Spaciousness That Welcomes Grace”
This piece is about my relationship with my oldest son.
He is 15, and he is "becoming" every single day at a pace that I struggle to keep up with. He's about to get his provisional drivers license, and he's just growing up.
Growing up requires so much grace. Grace for the person growing, and grace for the people witnessing the child change and become.
Watching a child grow is an incredible thing. Beautiful, joyful, and so, so painful.
There is a lot of grief in parenting that I don't think is discussed very much, and so when you experience it as a parent, it is sometimes incredibly overwhelming.
Each new stage of becoming is like a little miniature loss, albeit normal, expected, welcome, and beautiful! I am changing a lot too, as he changes and we both have to give each other grace.
We're doing our best!
So the two chairs represent two people. Two individuals with their own shadows and their own paths. They are each becoming themselves more and more each day side by side.
The light is Grace. They are bathed in it!
Viewers always ask, 'Why chairs?' I think chairs are a profoundly beautiful and evocative metaphor for the human experience. I think of them as figures in my work; their arrangements and interactions suggesting relationships, the space, and time between us.
Chairs symbolize stillness and presence. We use chairs to hold space for others. An empty chair can represent a person coming or going. My fascination with chairs evolved during a period of difficult personal experiences that I could not easily solve my way out of. It became evident that my artwork was guiding me to sit with my feelings, to be present with myself and the pain I was experiencing.
My work utilizes symbolism, whimsical palettes, and patterns to create a thought provoking balance between deep human existentialism and profound joy. The interplay of dramatic shadows and bright light represent the passage of time, and the inevitable changes we all go through. My work invite viewers to reflect on connection, transition, and the universal stories within our shared human experience.
Title- Becoming Is An Act Of Stillness That Welcomes Grace
Size- 20" x 20" x 1.5”
Acrylic on Canvas
FRAMED in a pine float frame measuring 22” x 22” x 2”
Thank you so much for your support!
This original acrylic painting features two blue metal chairs and their long shadows against a warm pink checkered background.
The title of this piece is “Becoming Is An Act Of Spaciousness That Welcomes Grace”
This piece is about my relationship with my oldest son.
He is 15, and he is "becoming" every single day at a pace that I struggle to keep up with. He's about to get his provisional drivers license, and he's just growing up.
Growing up requires so much grace. Grace for the person growing, and grace for the people witnessing the child change and become.
Watching a child grow is an incredible thing. Beautiful, joyful, and so, so painful.
There is a lot of grief in parenting that I don't think is discussed very much, and so when you experience it as a parent, it is sometimes incredibly overwhelming.
Each new stage of becoming is like a little miniature loss, albeit normal, expected, welcome, and beautiful! I am changing a lot too, as he changes and we both have to give each other grace.
We're doing our best!
So the two chairs represent two people. Two individuals with their own shadows and their own paths. They are each becoming themselves more and more each day side by side.
The light is Grace. They are bathed in it!
Viewers always ask, 'Why chairs?' I think chairs are a profoundly beautiful and evocative metaphor for the human experience. I think of them as figures in my work; their arrangements and interactions suggesting relationships, the space, and time between us.
Chairs symbolize stillness and presence. We use chairs to hold space for others. An empty chair can represent a person coming or going. My fascination with chairs evolved during a period of difficult personal experiences that I could not easily solve my way out of. It became evident that my artwork was guiding me to sit with my feelings, to be present with myself and the pain I was experiencing.
My work utilizes symbolism, whimsical palettes, and patterns to create a thought provoking balance between deep human existentialism and profound joy. The interplay of dramatic shadows and bright light represent the passage of time, and the inevitable changes we all go through. My work invite viewers to reflect on connection, transition, and the universal stories within our shared human experience.
Title- Becoming Is An Act Of Stillness That Welcomes Grace
Size- 20" x 20" x 1.5”
Acrylic on Canvas
FRAMED in a pine float frame measuring 22” x 22” x 2”
Thank you so much for your support!