Consolation.
Alleviation of misery or distress of mind, mitigation of grief or anxiety; from Old French consolacion: solace, comfort, delight, pleasure.
All of the above! Turning my full focus to developing this 4 x 6" bit of real estate—a lovely rectangle of high caliber card stock—alleviated all that which needed alleviating, replaced all distress of mind with delight and pleasure.
I started this postcard while in a place of angst and melancholy, and I experienced some discord and disappointment at points during the early stages.
However, working small, which might seem to imply fussy or finicky or confined, proved to be heart-opening, expansive, and infinite—consoling beyond measure. A welcome happenstance!
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| Open to Whatever the Heavens Have on Offer 4 x 6" postcard on card stock; acrylic, fabric ink, pencil, acrylic skin, print collage, and tissue paper collage abstract 2020 |
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| Can you see the eensy weensy print collage pieces enlarged here? Even magnified, none of the words may be readable, and if you look back at the piece as a whole (top photo, unmagnified) you may not even be able to tell that you're looking at typeface, but those six little snippets of print collage so delight me! |
