Moon, Stone, Moment — At Principle Gallery Saturday
The light we know in the skies above is all that remains of immensely distant fiery stars, many of which no longer exist. They have long since burned to nothingness.
Their light is all that remains. And even that is fleeting.
Soon, history is all that remains of light.
I think there’s a point in there somewhere, but I am not exactly sure where this will go.
I started writing this with the thought that all light is a byproduct of destruction and that we are ourselves are a byproduct of light, dependent as we are on it for producing food and energy.
By extension, we are all products of some distant destruction.
Something burnt so that we might be.
And maybe that is the point I am trying to make– that in order to produce light you have to be willing to sacrifice something. You have to be willing to burn, in some way, a part of yourself to nothingness.
That reminds me of a line from the novel Demian from Hermann Hesse, one that resonated with me at a crucial point in my life: Whoever wants to be born, must first destroy a world.
The question is: What are you willing to burn in order to create your own light?
That sounds ominous, doesn’t it? Not sure if it is, however. The burning is a symbolic form of transformation and is, for most, often not so dramatic in nature.
Even so, the change or transformation we seek– the light– requires some form of sacrifice.
I somehow see this in the new painting at the top, Moon, Stone, Moment. I think we have the choice to transform ourselves and the Red Tree represents that here. The stones in the foreground are static, not able or willing to transform themselves. Not that they won’t do so at some point. It will just take a greater force to create the destruction needed for them to produce the light they possess.
Phew! Not sure if this makes any sense but that doesn’t really matter. Many of my early morning thoughts here are half-baked at best and many won’t make it to the bakery shelves.
Not sure if this recipe works yet. Going to leave it in the oven for a bit.
Maybe I’ll have it worked out for the Gallery Talk on Saturday. We’ll see…
REMINDER/ TWO MORE DAYS!
What: GALLERY TALK
Who: With GC MYERS
Where: PRINCIPLE GALLERY, Alexandria VA
When: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, Beginning at 1 PM
Why: It’s FREE and OPEN TO ALL, FUN, informative, and there will be a FREE DRAWING for the painting below, On the Rise–and maybe even one more!
All this and more!
On the Rise– You Could Win This Painting!
Redtree Times 
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