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Day 21 30 Paintings in 30 Days
What is it about light that calls to us?
In the darkness we can see nothing period, zip, nyet, nada, nem and so on.
Doesn't matter what language you speak or what country you live in. The dark is dark.
We can't see.
And that, scares the living daylights out of us. It's why our ancestors huddled around fires and stuck close to each other. There's safety in numbers and in knowing you're not alone in the dark.
Any kind of dark, the night time, a bad dream or circumstances where a bad dream would be better is swept away by turning on a little light somehow, someway.
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| Alice Edwards 1949 -- Hot Chocolate 9' X 7" oil on canvas board |
Sometimes it's enough to hit the light switch. Other times we need the light of love and friendship.
We need the sunlight to make vitamin D and to recharge our batteries.
We need the light. Lightness in mind, body and spirit.
So making sure I have a clear clean light source in my paintings is a reassuring feeling that the natural good order of things will assert itself in the end.
In the meantime I paint on!
How do you handle the dark?
I was just thinking about this. I am visiting a friend, and she lives in the country. No street lights. At night, when the lights are off you are in pitch black. Spooky. LOL. I like just enough light,to make out the shapes in the room. Maybe it is not the dark, but the feeling of being blind that is frightening. Happy painting to you :)
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