"Copper and Garlic"
This week’s featured painting is “Copper and Garlic” from 2009. It is done with oil on panel, and measures 4 x 4 inches.
Much of what I do behind the easel flows from my interest in meditation that began as a teenager.
There are countless ways to practice meditation, and I’ve tried more than a few, but the common experience seems to be a simple one – calming the mind enough to sense a connection to something larger than the self.
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In many ways, these paintings embody that spirit. It is even woven into the way they are made. The act of painting itself is often deeply meditative – artists often report a sense of absorption in the work so profound that their awareness of themselves is completely lost.
Above all else, I hope that spending a moment or two with these paintings gives the viewer a similar sense of their thoughts slowing down, the world falling away a little, and perhaps a connection to something larger than themselves.
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