Maybe it’s the coming of spring and the later daybreaks caused by our recent shift in the clocks that remind me of how the first light of each day holds so much promise and potential. Maybe that’s why I’m calling this smaller new painting The Arrival. It’s a 9″ by 12″ canvas and is a continuation of my Red Roof series.
I’ve always been enticed about the promise of potential in many things and often find myself wondering why we so often fail to take full advantage of the opportunities that sometimes rise before us. How many of us have failed to follow their desires, choosing security first? This always comes to mind when I spend some time doing the genealogy of my family.
So often these people, unheard names from distant times and places who become my family with the turn of a page, packed up and headed for a new horizon, leaving behind the security of home and family. Some sought freedoms. Some sought wealth. Some, just an opportunity.
I’m not sure how many of them felt they ever captured the potential of their new land’s potential but that may not be the point. Perhaps it is in just seeing the potential and following it that matters.
And that’s kind of what I see in this small piece. While others sleep in their secure homes, the seeker is awake and awaiting the potential of the new day. The new opportunity’s arrival.
Redtree Times 