Description
Details:
“Brutiful” is an original oil painting on 9×12 inch heavy, archival paper. The painting comes float mounted in a natural wood frame under museum quality, non-glare glass. The framed dimensions of the piece are approximately 12×15 inches. I ship every painting out of Pass Christian, Mississippi. This painting will be available for pick up or shipping on February 26, 2024.
Inspiration:
Over the holidays, our oldest came back from college and after weeks of his planning it, we sat around the kitchen table and did something I have never done before. We played Dungeons and Dragons. If you aren’t familiar with this particular game, this is how the official website describes it: “the players form an adventuring party who explore fantasy worlds together as they embark on epic quests and level up in experience. The Dungeon Master (also known as the DM) is the game’s referee and storyteller.”
The character I created was a bird person named Raven whose magic, at least in our little world, was unparalleled.
I have never particularly liked or disliked Star Wars. I fell asleep during one of the Lord of the Rings movies. (Gasp!) In other words, this was not a game I would typically play or seek out.
And I enjoyed it.
Since then, I have been thinking about Ravens. Those dark birds I never paint. And I’ve been thinking about how sadness and joy so often commingle, walk together, how they don’t stay in their own lanes, no matter how much we try to see it that way. The joy of being with a child (or adult I suppose?) who has been away for a while, mixed with the heaviness of his having grown up so much. The beauty of this present life and the longing for those who aren’t here.
So my bicycler today has both flowers and a raven in her basket. She is moving through this world fully alive, fully human, with wonder, delight, and despair.
A writer I follow, Glennon Doyle, calls things that are both beautiful and brutal “Bruitfal,” a word I’ve now incorporated into my vocabulary. A word I’ve used as the title to this painting.
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