Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
—-Herman Melville
This is a piece that I’ve been working on for the last few days, a 20″ by 24″ canvas. I’ve spent quite a bit of time just looking at this painting and have felt both happiness and a bittersweet sadness from it.
Perhaps it is that sense of home that many of us seek, that need for a place of our own in the world. A repository of memories and hopes where we are secure from the prying eyes of the outside world.
There is a real duality in that image, both happy and sad, because the ideal is always fleeting and ephemeral when found. But still we feel the need to seek.
I don’t know if that makes any sense to anyone living outside my head but that is what I see in this piece. That sense of dual purpose is actually is what I hope for all my work, to have a work pull up conflicting emotions. I think it heightens the emotional impact, gives contrast to the dominant feeling.
For me, this piece works on those terms.
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