Sunday, January 23, 2011

by the red door

i think my most memorable dreams from the last ten years are those with my mother in them.  she died in 2000.  the encounters i have with her have never been negative. she always seems to be in a place of peace. although she never beckons me to join her, most of the time in my dreams she does watch from afar from a place that is very nebulous and unrecognizable yet somehow strangely peaceful. the painting above is based on such a dream.  when i awoke from it i was filled with sense of well being and understanding. 

8 comments:

  1. It enriches an already beautiful painting to know what its story is.
    xx
    julie

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  2. That's very beautifull; the painting and wath your mother means to you.
    Hadiah

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  3. Beautiful. My mother died in 2004, she visits me almost every night. The dreams are not as peaceful as yours although I wish they were. Thanks for the inspiring post.

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  4. I am lucky to still have my Mother albeit in a place that is a new, undefined level. She is confused. But she is still wise. And she hates Mitch McConnell - she has grown more liberal and and more compassionate. Is there wisdom with age we don't source?

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  5. thank you, lovely hadiah. your words mean a lot to me:)

    hi davida, thank your for visiting. when i was painting this and thinking about the dreams i had had of my mom, the fact that they were all really peaceful struck me. i wish the same for you.

    hi dear suse:) i certainly hope so! and i hope i am fortunate to live long enough to find out....i love that your mom has become kinder- i think empathy is the product of understanding and understanding the fruit of self knowledge, which comes from reflection, solitude and thought. i see these qualities in you all the time, and i am sure you learned them from her to some extent. thank you for visiting!

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  6. Hey!!
    There you are.....
    love it, I like that the door is small and the room is big, it gives a cavernous effect that I find interesting.
    you gotta love somthing that relates to MOM!
    I miss her too

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  7. i think that lewis carroll's recording of proportions in dreams in "alice in wonderland" was one of many brilliant attributes of that book. so thank you for noticing this- it happened by accident, but of course i was pleased with it when i saw it.

    mom's are special and i still miss mine a lot. it is strange, but i was talking with my sister about it a few years ago and she brought up the word orphan in the conversation, and, although i was 32 when she died, it still felt like and orphan in many ways...thanks jb. i really appreciate your insight.

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