Original artwork description:

On reflecting about our mortality and the anxiety that thinking about death produces, I took solace in 'Meditations', the book written by the Stoic Marcus Aurelius. You have the moment you exist in, make the best of it.

I spend hours thinking in visuals and relating imagery to systems of meaning. I think creating is the main occupation of life. Regardless of how ‘good’ you are at creating, when you do so you learn something inextricably integral to our own lifeforce, you learn about you and what you think creating is. I’m learning to listen to the quiet voice within, to observe the subtle, beautiful patterns which make up our existence. I want to know how to participate well. Painting, like life, is not pure freedom. Pigment can have many qualities in an artwork, but it is still limited. I find joy in life, in painting by knowing those qualities intimately and making unexpected and beautiful relations between those qualities.

the painting has a simple poplar frame, this helps protect the painting.

Materials used:

oil

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