Original Painting | Albury | Crossing: 2.1 | 200 x 100 cm root_422010

Original Painting | Albury | Crossing: 2.1 | 200 x 100 cm root_422010Title: Albury Paradox: You can see everything and move nothing. The Story I painted this when I was living between Albury and Wodonga a remote, cross border place where the energy was pure but had not yet found its voice. The land held something real that nobody around me could see. The hills, the river, the light all present, all waiting. I was waiting too. I did not know what for, but the weight of that quiet knowing pressed into every layer of

Two versions of myself were there — the one who had achieved everything and the one who was just beginning to ask why

I called it being fine

From the shore I looked like someone enjoying a swim

7 — The Body Surrenders

cannot stop being it

where rigid mental patterns begin to soften in the presence of the work

Some live on to build the new

It is what remains after everything else has been completed

7 operates here as the body's quiet surrender after everything has been done

Acrylic on linen canvas

The difficulties were not obstacles—they were the passage I had to cross to become who I am

Title: The Merge