I don’t think it’s possible to be human and not feel broken at least once in a lifetime.
On the day I started this piece, broken was how I felt — it was why I had to do this painting. I started working by the light of one candle in the evening and couldn’t see the colours on the canvas as I worked through the night. By the time the sun came through the window the next morning, I had finished. And I felt whole again.
Comment by Mick Mather
October 28, 2005 @ 1:50 pm
This is a very moving piece and there’s a lot to be said for work that’s cathartic.
Comment by Caroline
October 28, 2005 @ 3:37 pm
Scarily broken image but a great way to get yourself whole again!
Comment by Rick
October 28, 2005 @ 6:11 pm
As usual, you set the bar way too high for us mere mortals. Wonderful image, and moving in it’s context.
Comment by carlapott
October 28, 2005 @ 8:47 pm
I understand so well…
I do paint in the same way.
And it is true, there can’t be anyone who never felt broken inside.At least once…
Comment by Anonymous
October 28, 2005 @ 9:46 pm
Wonderful submission, you describe the same way I work 
Comment by The Unknown
October 29, 2005 @ 2:11 am
Great work. I love the story with the pic. Great job!
love
Comment by TizzieLizzie
October 29, 2005 @ 8:23 pm
Wow. What a beautiful and powerful piece. Great work!
Comment by Sultry Painter Woman
October 29, 2005 @ 10:43 pm
Inspiring. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO literal in comparison, and don’t especially like that about me. It makes me feel simple, shallow and relatively stupid. Doing work in this way would no doubt bring all my vulnerability to the surface. I am standing in the tension of the challenge. Lovely piece and illuminating explanation.
Comment by Ellen
October 30, 2005 @ 12:20 am
I must comment as well…this is beautiful. You should submit it to the breast cancer awareness society…this piece could be auctioned off for loads!!!
Comment by jpohl
October 30, 2005 @ 11:02 am
That’s a very good idea but the painting was sold for a song when I first exhibited it ten years ago. (Enough to make rent.) It has a very good home, but maybe if the owner ever gets tired of it she’ll consider the thought. Breast cancer has run in my family so the cause is dear to my heart, even if it wasn’t the thought I had in mind when I painted this.
I should add that painters tend to get approached by charities for their work all the time, but what most people don’t understand is that the average artist in Canada lives 25 percent below the poverty line. Some years I might be approached for donations of my work half a dozen times, but I’ve made a policy of donating once a year. This piece was done in a night, but these days most pieces take me months and some years to realize so it’s not always easy to do.
Comment by KimC
November 3, 2005 @ 12:45 pm
How true! I have experience the same thing. Beautiful artwork.
Comment by Aravis
November 3, 2005 @ 3:04 pm
That’s what happened when I worked on Remote. It’s wonderful how putting the emotion into art helps to work through it somehow.
This is a really wonderful piece.
Comment by PepperDel
November 4, 2005 @ 4:58 am
Really a great, great illo ! It’s so true, sometimes, everything, your body, your future, your hope, everything seems to be broken…
Nothing to do except waiting a new sunshine…
Comment by William Wray
December 7, 2005 @ 4:12 am
I like when you work more paitnerly like this.
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