Original Available: $225
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Wayfinding Collection VII (Conclusion of Collection)
10” x 30” Acrylic
Standard Profile (3/4” depth) gallery wrapped canvas
Finish: Professional satin varnish
Prints available (see below)
“Beneath the Surface” card included with purchase of original or print.
Beneath the Surface
The sound track to the creation of this piece was the song, “Where I Found Myself,” by August Green. I stumbled upon August on Spotify a while back and I fell so in love with this song that I couldn’t resist writing some of the lyrics into this piece. Here are those lyrics, not necessarily in the order they fall in within the song:
No more runnin’ from the feeling; no more hiding in my head
Everything I thought I needed led me here instead…
Every piece that I let go brought me back to who I know
Right here, I found myself again.
This song - and this painting - marked a reorientation moment for me. Sometimes life - its demands and requirements, its opinionated voices - grows too loud, pulls me too far off-center, and I need something to give me pause, to help me find my way back toward living before God alone. This song did that for me, and gave me language for some of my process.
For me, the last couple of years have been so much about loosening my tight grasp on whatever image I think I need to perform or portray, for whomever I tend to (wrongly) think needs that falseness from me. It’s been about shedding another layer - or two, or twelve - of pretension and coming home in a new way to my honest self, and to God. About offering my naked life back to God as an act of worship… saying, “Here I am, just me, living for no one’s approval but yours, being as true as I know how to who I believe you made me to be, and trusting you with all the implications thereof.”
I’m learning that when I’m pulled off-center, the place I ache to come home to is not far off or difficult to attain - it’s actually right here, already inside me. It’s living into the truth of how I’m made, before the One who made me.
This piece is for those who’re longing to press deeper into that homecoming. Just you. Honestly being who you are, living the way you were made to live. Right here.
Original Available: $225
Here
Wayfinding Collection VII (Conclusion of Collection)
10” x 30” Acrylic
Standard Profile (3/4” depth) gallery wrapped canvas
Finish: Professional satin varnish
Prints available (see below)
“Beneath the Surface” card included with purchase of original or print.
Beneath the Surface
The sound track to the creation of this piece was the song, “Where I Found Myself,” by August Green. I stumbled upon August on Spotify a while back and I fell so in love with this song that I couldn’t resist writing some of the lyrics into this piece. Here are those lyrics, not necessarily in the order they fall in within the song:
No more runnin’ from the feeling; no more hiding in my head
Everything I thought I needed led me here instead…
Every piece that I let go brought me back to who I know
Right here, I found myself again.
This song - and this painting - marked a reorientation moment for me. Sometimes life - its demands and requirements, its opinionated voices - grows too loud, pulls me too far off-center, and I need something to give me pause, to help me find my way back toward living before God alone. This song did that for me, and gave me language for some of my process.
For me, the last couple of years have been so much about loosening my tight grasp on whatever image I think I need to perform or portray, for whomever I tend to (wrongly) think needs that falseness from me. It’s been about shedding another layer - or two, or twelve - of pretension and coming home in a new way to my honest self, and to God. About offering my naked life back to God as an act of worship… saying, “Here I am, just me, living for no one’s approval but yours, being as true as I know how to who I believe you made me to be, and trusting you with all the implications thereof.”
I’m learning that when I’m pulled off-center, the place I ache to come home to is not far off or difficult to attain - it’s actually right here, already inside me. It’s living into the truth of how I’m made, before the One who made me.
This piece is for those who’re longing to press deeper into that homecoming. Just you. Honestly being who you are, living the way you were made to live. Right here.
