If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it – keep going, keep going come what may.
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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Like many of my paintings, this new piece, Reaching Out, a canvas measuring 36″ by 18″, is concerned with the Search.
The search for something that we think is missing or that we need.
Love. Friendship. Knowledge. Wisdom. Fame. Fortune. Peace. Acceptance. Truth. God.
Answers to those needs and questions that never rest within us. Those things that define us as who we truly are and what place we occupy in this universe.
I think that this searching will always be with us, that we shall never find all of the answers we seek. I know that I will never find all of the answers that I desire. But finding just a few answers, even if only a glimpse of an answer, satisfies me for a time, giving me a prod to continue scanning the horizon even when I am most content in my life as it is.
So, I maintain my own personal search.
As, I am sure, you do as well.
For this Sunday morning music, I have chose a song that meshes nicely with the idea of the Search, written by one of my favorites, Richard Thompson. Titled She Never Could Resist a Winding Road, this version is a duet between Joan Baez and Thompson. It’s a lovely song and nice way to begin your own seeking this morning.
Have a great day.
Oh! The painting above, Reaching Out, is part of my solo show, Self Determination, that opens at the West End Gallery this coming Friday, July 14.
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