When Art Speaks To You…

By Silver Blue

Sorry to have been absent for a while. There are myriad things going on behind the scenes, and while I don’t use the blog to air personal issues, I’ll say this. Take care of your spine. If it causes you pain, there’s most likely a reason for it. Years of not listening to my body is finally catching up with me.

On a brighter note, when ART is the thing speaking to you, it can be fun to listen to as well. 🙂

The housemate and I went to a Rummage Sale (for lack of a better term) today. I’ve never really enjoyed combing through castoffs for the hidden jewel, but something bid me go today. So, I went. There, I found, for a ridiculously low sum (under $10) a framed print that not only spoke to me, it wouldn’t let me go.

Now, it’s an abstract, but … somehow different. More than just colour thrown on a canvas, or the cleaning of an artists brush, there’s … hidden objects in this painting that are not of my imagination.

There’s a figure with arms outstretched:

and she seems to be reaching for, or releasing a bird:

There are hands reaching up from below, even.

Then, from the top corner of the paining, another figure emerges:

also with arms outstretched, but I don’t know what, if anything, she’s holding.

The last figure I discovered (so far) is in the lower right… and the arm is bent as if there is a blanket folded over the arm, yet the hand is folded back in a strange position.

This one’s a little trickier to see, as the face is looking down, and the eye is far more pronounced.

It’s in the corner of my living room, opposite what I call Meditation Corner.

Silver Blue, who at 42, still likes looking at clouds and seeing what I might make of them. 🙂

 

Published by Silver Blue in birds, figures, hands, painting, women