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| Defiance 10 x 14" Oil on Canvas Board 2014 #galleryworks Available for Sale |
I was asked why I named this piece Defiance.
There is a story.
When I started on this piece in the late Fall of 2014, I was going through a period of loss; my emotions were very strong and life seemed to be closing in all around me. In my pain, I reached out to the one thing I had learned to do when my words were not enough to capture the depth of sorrow I was diving into; when my heart refused to go on; when pain threatened to shut me down.
I reached out to my canvas.
This piece helped me redirect the intense emotions from my aching heart to an external, tangible object and reminded me that art was a compassionate alternative for alleviating pain.
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| Available for sale with handmade Frame Dimensions with frame: 16" x 19.75" |
The intensely personal experience of creating art work: diligently carving and creating the canvas, making it ready for paint, touching the rough edges of hardened gesso, and identifying with that roughness, planning the proportions and colour palette of the image and realising that not all of life was spiralling out of control, was cathartic as well as cathectic.
More than anything, creating this art piece was my wordless act of resistance against all consuming despair, and hope-draining life circumstances. It was my refusal to go down silently into the night, without a fight.
It was my act of Defiance.
Just like the butterfly breaking out of the dark cocoon, transformed, renewed and dancing on the cliffs, this art piece was my wordless affirmation of the word of hope that has been sown deep into my heart, reassuring me that I am more than a conqueror.
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