I like how this piece came out, it's rich tones and textures working with the image of one so ancient. My younger sisters take time to roam the Graham family homesteads when they return for visits, cameras in hand. My father and uncle spent their life working farms that were right across the road from each other. "Up home" and "down home" to we cousins, and we roamed them freely, working side by side in haying season as our fathers did in most things concerning the farms. The brothers have left this world, but everywhere we see the remnants of their imprint, their lives unfold for us in the land, the abandoned equipment and fence lines that use to be. I'm so thankful that
Kellie and
Ree (Doreen) have chosen to capture all these glimpses, memories and echos of lives lived, with their cameras.
I love the old gnarled tree that Ree (Doreen) took, the four of us share a fascination with trees as did our father, he loved working in the woods, the fresh clean smell of the air and the wood sap that filled every fibre of his clothing at the end of hard days work. All these memories and more came rolling together as I worked on this piece, earning its name,
"Memory Echoes"
On the table currently are a couple more mixed media pieces, gaining some texture through collage and other mediums.
Been reading some from Steven Pressfield's book, "
Do The Work" it's a hard hitting book for creatives, in this portion he is dealing with 'Resistance'
"The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it."
"Resistance plays for keeps. Resistance's goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill.
Its target is the epicenter of our being: our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on this earth to give and that no one else has but us..."
Strong words, but they do make me stop and wonder at the many things that life kicks our way and the impact they have...
