1. natural light
2. artificial/interior light
3. mixed interior and UV (black) light
4. UV light alone
5. no light (glow in the dark)
Ingredients: acrylic, phosphorescent pigments, crushed glass, varnish, water & light on canvas.
Tranquility. A beautiful, melodious, serene, wonderful word. I think it's my favorite word.
I've been saving it, holding onto it as a painting title for many years, waiting for the right opportunity. I didn't know that there would ever necessarily be one, and I wasn't sure I would recognize it when it came.
But it's here.
A few months ago when I was in the middle of working on this piece, I knew I felt the word pulling on me. I knew it because of the distinct sense of tranquility I felt while looking at it. It hits all the right notes for me. The color is everything I want to surround my world in. I want to dive from a cliff gracefully into a pool of this liquid, immersing myself fully in the soothing feelings that wash over me while looking at it.
At the moment, it's what I see when I meditate.
I debate whether I will be able to let this painting go from my life. But I also realize, and accept, that my artwork in physical form is not for me. It's for you. No matter where it goes, it will always remain within me, and I have more inside waiting to come out. It will have a much higher purpose if I let it wander its way throughout the universe away from me. I don't need it nearby to create the feeling I see in it. I am this painting.
My hope is for the tranquility of this piece to grow, casting a wider net than I ever could keeping it inside, hoarding the dream for myself. If even one other person feels as strongly about it as I do, the tranquility of it has spread further. It belongs to someone else, maybe a few people, maybe the whole world. Art is so powerful. I want the universe to take it and run.
And if that allows more of me to open up and find even greater peace and serenity in my art than I do now, how perfect my life will be.
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