self portrait 3: i use to be three years old and sometimes i think i still am
click on "all sizes" above picture to see larger view.
as we grow older more responsibilities and life events sometimes "bury" the child within. it is important to nurture our "inner child".....to not forget the joy we felt when life seemed more care free.....to be "adult" doesn't mean "no play"....one has to embrace all that life offers...to laugh, smile, celebrate......remember to play with your "toys", be they a paintbrush or a balloon.
the figure on the right (as you view the art piece) is me: grown up, but still "playing" with my "toys" (my paintbrush/my art...the joy i experience when working on my art).
on the left i am "blindfolded" in a circle of adult responsibilities...i can't see a way out...how to lose the blindfold....
the "portrait" on the easel is me.......at age three
the hand....my hand....lifting the blindfold...i control my life, my fate, my destiny.....my joy!
jennifer beinhacker
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
mixed media: on wood: acrylic paint, tissue paper, sepia photograph
23" L x 14" H
2008
exhibited at:
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th St, NW
Washington, DC
7 January - February 9 2009
self portrait 3: i use to be three years old and sometimes i think i still am
click on "all sizes" above picture to see larger view.
as we grow older more responsibilities and life events sometimes "bury" the child within. it is important to nurture our "inner child".....to not forget the joy we felt when life seemed more care free.....to be "adult" doesn't mean "no play"....one has to embrace all that life offers...to laugh, smile, celebrate......remember to play with your "toys", be they a paintbrush or a balloon.
the figure on the right (as you view the art piece) is me: grown up, but still "playing" with my "toys" (my paintbrush/my art...the joy i experience when working on my art).
on the left i am "blindfolded" in a circle of adult responsibilities...i can't see a way out...how to lose the blindfold....
the "portrait" on the easel is me.......at age three
the hand....my hand....lifting the blindfold...i control my life, my fate, my destiny.....my joy!
jennifer beinhacker
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
mixed media: on wood: acrylic paint, tissue paper, sepia photograph
23" L x 14" H
2008
exhibited at:
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th St, NW
Washington, DC
7 January - February 9 2009