She didn’t think Jack
had ever felt
the coming and going
in quite the same way
she had.
To leave,
after all,
was not the same
as being left.
Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
On my easel
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| work in progress, 40 days in, 5/28/20 24 x 48" canvas |
4 comments:
"To leave,
after all,
was not the same
as being left."
There is something profound in this simple message. To leave is more positive position.... but in regard to painting, what is left is stronger. Just a random rant! Love the colors and the gradations... but some will leave and some remain.
Carol, thanks for your reflections here on leaving and being left. I have long been aware of the differences which is, of course, why this passage caught my attention. Love how you thought about leaving and being left in terms of painting!
Having just been left, I can tell you it stinks to high heaven. And yet...helps with letting go and breathing. The way you connect prose with snippets of art is simply gorgeous.
Stink it does. I used the principle, however, to guide me in early parenting years when I wanted to go out w/ friends of an evening and one or another of my nurslings/toddlers couldn't bear to have me leave. I'd have Dave take THEM out, in effect 'leaving' me, and when they got back home and I was in absentia, they never even noticed.
Thanks for your feedback re connecting prose with snippets of art.
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