Being

I stretched out silk today and covered it with gesso - a first for me! The gesso-covered silk is ripply and parchment-ey. It's surface feels hardened and crackly, like leathery skin, but very white. I've never painted on a surface like this before, it's like entering unknown territory.

I also don't what I'm feeling anymore, so I paint an egg shape then I sit waiting, breathing, being.

But love, love calls (and sorrow) and all is as it should be.

"Everybody has come home...Our lives don't end" - lyrics from "Goin' Out" by Sarah Harmer.

Slowly, picking away at love...until nothing's left.

"Being" - acrylic and pastel on silk - 4' x 5' 

Musical Inspiration: Friends of mine: Liquoricegirl (Diane Barbarash) - "I Found You Under the Dogwood Tree", Kara Louisa - "I Wish", and Ontario girl Sarah Harmer - "You Were Here" and "I'm a Mountain".

Stasis

"Stasis" - 4' x 5' acrylic & pastel - from the series "Journey Into Intimacy" 

Heart pounding, I calm my breathing so that I can begin. I also start to plan the following day's work by preparing large watercolor sheets with gesso so they're ready to go first thing.

I sit a moment gathering strength for the work to be done - all encompassing, all consuming. "I wanna feel good, soul sister." (lyrics from "Street Faerie")

What does love feel like? Floating, diving, still, fast, slow, penetrating, dreaming, hard, soft, and then stasis.

How to enter the water? Be the water.

Musical Inspiration: Massive Attack - "Protection", Sinead Lohan - "No Mermaid", Cree Summer - "Street Faerie", The Primitives - "Pure".