Daily art- new work- Her Story
“Her Story”
24″ x 30″
Oils/Oil paint pens
Here is the Quote that goes with this work:
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
~Helen Keller
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This work has been in progress for more than a year, finished on 5/16/08.
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Her Story : Well it’s all of our stories isn’t it? Our personal travels,
experiences, lessons, baggage some say. I say it’s my story and it only can
run and or ruin my life if I give it power too. I have a story, just as you do. My
story has heroes, risks, lessons, devils, dragons, mountains and roads.
It’s mine.
It maybe the only thing I get to take with me as they say, my story.
I leave it open, I leave a ace of spades for a bookmark; my Moments, are
now, the desire is not to shed my past, but to incorporate it into the whole
picture.
I get to write the ending though.
I get to write the ending.
I am what I am because of every single thought, experience, choice made,
choices not made, love had, love lost. I am what I am because of my story.
I have no shame.
We have all suffered, it’s the suffering I feared.
I no longer Fear.
The opposite of Fear is not Courage,
It is Love.
Living in the moment,
I can accept every line on my aging
face as testament to the many thousand
battlefields, and miles over come
to be here today.
As I am.
We all have a story.
We all have a terminal illness.
It’s called Birth.
I’m living like it’s my last ten seconds.
Balls to the Wall.
Strap it on.
All out.
Full steam ahead.
A good friend recently commented that my work
made her think that I was a person that did what she wanted to do,
regardless, and screamed at people to “Be Happy!”
[with my work, not literally].
I think she is right,
I am doing those things,
and I would add only one thing,
to hone not to destroy her sentiment,
“Be Happy Right Here & Now!”
For it’s all we may have in the end; living without regrets,
don’t miss it.
I don’t want to dismiss, I want to embrace.
I want personal freedom.
I release my resistance.
This is my Story.
Well, One of them.
Where is your story taking you?
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Thank you for reading, have a great day.
Heather
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Talk about detail!!! Never again call me the detail freak. It’s really a beautiful work.
Fantastic Heather! I love how her story looks like tattoos…
Thanks Vikki! *Smirks* A new Queen-dom is born!
Cynthia, cool thanks, I wanted them to look like tattoos, but I didn’t want to say that in words, so it’s cool that you see them that way too.
Tattoo was the first thing I thought when I saw this beautiful image. I have a tattoo and it’s part of my story. I began as a small moon and star, then, after going through a major situation in my life I had a galactic spiral added to it. Our stories are not in insolation – they ripple out across the ether and touch another and another.
I love this painting
Hi Leah! First I added your wonderful blog (this dreaming heart see it in the side bar). Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for sharing.
Nice work. I like your blog. Would you like to do a link exchange? I’m a fellow artist trying to build my ranking by getting more reciprocal links. If interested please email me at:
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Kickass story. Kickass painting, Heather. A woman tattooing herself as she goes along, wearing her journey with audacity. Correction. Being her audacious journey.