Richard's Dream
Sep 21, 2020
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Updated: Oct 2, 2020
This abstract painting was sold immediately after I moved from my first studio, Gallery of Dreams, to (5B) at The Alameda ArtWorks in San Jose, CA. It's a 36"x36" mixed media on stretched canvas. I keep returning to this abstract style. It's life, isn't it? Bold, rough, roughed up, quiet, loud. . . messed up, but beautiful still. As in: life is difficult, life is beautiful, life is difficult, life is beautiful . . .
Reading about Richard’s dream sparked a memory from a summer I spent volunteering at a community garden. I remember one evening when we were planting seedlings under a sky that seemed to hold its breath, the air thick with the scent of damp earth and distant pine. A fellow volunteer, an older man with weathered hands, told us a story about a recurring dream he’d had since his youth—he would walk through endless rows of corn, each stalk whispering his name, urging him forward. télécharger 1xbet apk He said the dream gave him courage to keep tending the garden despite setbacks, just as it seemed to fuel Richard’s perseverance. It’s funny how a simple narrative can echo moments we thought…