Weaving
Hi there, just taking a moment away from the canvas to write, something that I must say is new to me, learning how to flow with words the way I do with paint. I've been painting circles of colour, circles of life, all triggered off by one piece of work (above) started in 2006 entitled Weaving, which now resides in the house of a wonderful elderly couple who bought it at my 1st solo exhibition in November 2007. The painting is filled with small golden yellow circles all connected in the web of life, the spider spins her web and behind everything is creation.
There is the circle that is our life and inside of that circle there are myriad moments of experience all filtered through our bodymind with our senses. And so the paint, the rich velvet smooth beautiful paint and the colour, the intense happy vibrant alive colour, and the form, all of which together allow me to express my experience of being alive and of course the random chaotic pattern which says it all.
Yes, and so the paint... has been flowing in many a circle, depicting many a circle of experience. The elderly couple I spoke of, came to see my work ten years ago at a time when I was keeping it all to myself, gathering it in my cave, not wanting to show it to anyone. They were so encouraging and truly appreciated what I was doing, those few simple words gave me such strength.
This painting was without doubt an enormous symbolic gesture of my understanding of things, most of all myself and my place in the world. Its always fascinating to me how the pattern of the weave comes together how absolutely perfect that those lovely kind people were there encouraging me once again ten years later, and that it was them who went home with the painting, meant for them all along without me even knowing, and how, with time... things always come full circle.
Many thanks for reading, all the best. Sheena.
