Description
“A Certain Slant of Light”
From the Take Flight Series
A figure stands at the edge of the water, watching a flock of Roseate Spoonbills rise across a sky marked with gold. The light falls at an angle that feels both comforting and heavy—what Emily Dickinson called a “heavenly hurt.”
This painting reflects that tension: wonder and ache and how it can open us to the weight of our own interior landscapes. The birds, caught mid-flight, move toward freedom, while the figure below remains grounded, bearing witness.
In this meeting of stillness and motion, shadow and brightness, the painting asks us to simply present.