My Newest Painting | Sanctuary

SANCTUARY

The wait is finally over! I would love to introduce you all to “Sanctuary” the piece that has occupied most of my brain space for the past few months! Safe to say that this painting required hours upon hours of patient and thoughtful work that genuinely tested my limits. Even after I thought I was finished I decided to go back in to adjust colors and add details that probably only I would notice but were non-the-less important to me. This piece is additionally special because it is a double exposure portrait of my older sister who graciously titled the painting and wrote a completely original poem for it's description (read below).

This original painting is 18”x24” framed, varnished and available directly from me. (Payment plans available upon request)

So please reach out to me if you are interested! Or click the button below to view this painting in my online shop.

 
 

All I ever wanted was to be close

to my aliveness

to feel the vicious-tender heat of my heart

burn the edges

between myself and the world

Vulnerability is an invitation

A request for life

to press up against you

to unmoor you, again and again

until the petals loosen

and drop like teeth

(the waiting buds already aching)

How would it feel 

to wear uncertainty like a cloak?

Surrender into its folds

slip inside its sanctuary 

and pray at its altar?

What I am now understanding 

is that there is a soft violence 

in withholding yourself from the world 

A psychic bruising 

Today I am hungry for a sign

that I am between this

and something greater

That I will know 

the glowing light in the distance

as my own

And find comfort in the dark knowing 

I will never reach it