Looking Within: a series of Three: Part 2
The 2nd and 3rd oil pastels began late
in the summer as the book edits intensified. I was pushed to want to be
creative as a balance to the hours of reading text and moving around images on
the computer as I edited the book. I needed to get lost in that mystifying
process of touching a blank surface and revealing an image that conveys a truth
about what I was thinking about.
The second piece was also a vertical, entitled: 
           “Empathy’s Grace”  62”x43”
2013 oil and oil pastel on rag paper
Chaos
                                                            Spins
in vortex held
Quickens a breath
                                                            Within
slender thread,
Spun, then pulled
                                                            Revealing
that terrors pause,
The still points
edge deep within.
How do we find
that still point within, especially when all around us it 
seems our world is in
chaos?

 
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