I've just finished reading "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. I'd been wanting to read it, ever since I saw the intense color-filled movie years ago.
It's a powerful story of being lost at sea. It has that magical mix of entangling imagination with reality and sprinkling drops of wisdom all along the way.
I especially liked this little line… "At the heart of life is a fuse box.”
It keeps coming to mind when I look at this painting from the Cosmic Lace group. I called it "Cascade" because it always felt as if it was energy on overload...just totally overflowing.
The full line from Yann Martel's book is “Blessed be that part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fuse box.”
I've lived long enough to know there are times in life when heart pain is so heavy it feels as if there is no end. Then the pain goes numb...it's like the energy gets cut off...just like a "fuse box."
And, then the miracle of time comes and ever so gently lets the energy flow again. Making life different. Still good and beautiful.
Come to think of it this painting has been grabbing my attention a lot lately…
A few weeks back, there was a car on the street out in front of my house. It was parked in just the right way to catch the sun and bounce it into a corner of my living room it never reaches. Right onto this painting, turning it into a window into another world.
Oh! to paint with light like that!
Till next time.
Be well & stay safe
“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”