Early Autumn Stump
oil on panel 16" x 16"
" ...art is the triumph over chaos...to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us
like a bewildering and stupendous dream"
John Cheever
"We have art in order to not die from the truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole triumph over chaos idea appeals to me a great deal. After a chaotic summer and early fall of starting and stopping work in favor of family duties and travel and such - and though I do as a habit of life work every day - good stuff and life interrupted for a while.
So now I am home and back to work without anything looming on the horizon and I am blown away with the bewildering and stupendous dreaming, visual world and the difficulty in coming to grips with it with a brush. Perhaps returning and relearning and new seeing are the secrets to vitality and joy. Certainly they bring one to face the limitations of one's hand and the struggle to reconcile that with the essence,
the truth of what lies before us. Somewhere on that razor thin edge might be found what we hope is art. Only time can say, in the meantime - Enjoy!
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