“Windows”

30 x 30 cm (2013), acrylic on Fredrix canvas paper

COMMISIONED ART

 The word window comes from an Old English word which literally means “eye-door”.  Our memories are much like windows through which we view our patchwork of experiences: framing our view of the world, of lives lived and of thresholds crossed.

Working on this painting, my thoughts hovered around the idea of windows and transitions. There is something about moving on that puts us in a retrospective mode. Life is full of comings and goings, punctuating periods of just being. We take them as part of a natural order of things – each time with the hope we have somehow emerged better, blessed to have taken with us what truly matters.