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Continuing on with the exploration of complex new software ( "Affinity for Mac" ) that I recently purchased, incorporating two major new elements into my work - Layers and Text.

The inclusion of text for me in Art pieces was for a long time something of an anathema. I hated seeing it done and rejected doing in my own paintings as it shackled the abstract work to the ground, so to speak, to the everyday, mundane world of human talk.

Then came a long a patron who challenged me to give him my abstract painting style ALONG WITH incorporated text. I have a penchant for accepting all challenges and even though it was tough for me at first I soon learned to see the words and letters as just more formal or graphic elements in the total image. It opened up my artistic world by getting me to step out of my comfort zone.

When I presented said Mr. Taylor with the finished canvas, he immediately ordered a second one to hang next to it as a diptych. 3 more text-based pieces followed, all for the same patron.

For this image and the previous one, "Time and Time, Again" I wrote the text in the process of creating the image. I looked at the image, composited of a shot of the rubble of a building demolition and one of amaryllis growing in a greenhouse in January, and let the words come to me.

What came forward seems to say something about our current times when there's a tremendous threat of the demolition of much of what we once felt was safe and secure - things like freedom of thought and expression, freedom of assembly, freedom from hate and systemic persecution, freedom from the forces of ignorance.

Our current world view is dying. It has to. It quite clearly no longer serves us. Yet, out of every death comes some form of life, new life and perhaps a life that surprises us. And as surprising as it may be it will be something we did not expect. That's the beauty of it.

I learned recently, reading Rupert Sheldrake, that when cells die they produce a substance that enables new cells to be born. Without that substance new life can't come forth. If our old "world" is dying then there's some cause for joy - something new and unforeseen will be born out of it. So my message here is one of Hope in Dark Times.

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Music Link: "How Many Worlds" - Brian Eno, from his album, "Another Day on Earth".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2V7rtATTLk

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My Website: visionheartblog.wordpress.com

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