Video – https://youtu.be/gabyUZ0F-R0
Hello friends!
Welcome to Sunday’s ART of Truth!
It has been a long time since I have done mixed media in this way. I wanted to come and share with you the inspiration for this art piece. I knew I wanted grunge and texture and the word FRAGMENTS. I have been thinking a lot about the fragments or pieces of our lives and how they all fit together to represent who we are, what is of value to us, what inspires us, and even what hurts us. I want to focus on the whole concept of fragments.
Fragments – division, member, part, piece, portion, section, and segment. This sounds so sterile and bookish, doesn’t it. To me, fragments are the most important bits of our lives.
Fragments often represent transition, change, the end of something, and the beginning of something new. To continue to grow we choose to close one chapter to begin another – leaving fragments behind.
We grow, we have babies, we build a home, & we finesse a career. We raise children and welcome grandchildren. We celebrate and grieve both at the same time. The beginning of something new, the changing of something older. We embrace the decades, uncertain and yet hopeful.
To me, the fragments are the echoes of things passed. Things we outgrew or that outgrew us. The fragments are little pieces of our selves sprinkled around us. They tell the world who we are, what we believe, and where we stand.
The are our future. They are our hopes that call out to the deep places in us to move our feet.
To dance
To live
To love
To create
To be silly
To be free
They call us to let go of worry and to embrace change. They speak to us deeply, reminding us to walk with grace through our decades.
Yesterday, I turned 60! I have lived 5 decades and chasing the 6th.
In this decade, I want to let go of worry and expectation. I want to breathe more. I want to joyfully embrace change and walk in grace. I want to live, hope, pursue, bless, & inspire.
I want to offer light in dark places.
In this piece, I recognized early on how deeply meaningful the process of creating was. In most junctures of the creative process, I felt lost. Like I had a blindfold over my eyes. I kept reminding myself to feel it. To be present and to follow where it led me.
I did. I am most pleased with how it turned out.
I love the old plaster look of the texture. Though I didn’t like its grey dingy season. It caused me to think of the decades that have gone by. Reflecting on the lessons in some seasons.
As I chose the bricks, so many things were spinning in my head and heart. We build walls, don’t we? We also tear them down. We hide behind them, and sometimes we even hurl the bricks into the universe as we scream about this place or that place in our story (figuratively of course)
However, walls also represent boundaries. We can have a boundary that is not a wall, but a healthy limit and a safe place to preserve our peace and the things we treasure the most.
I was also captured by the crevices of darkness amidst all the beauty on this piece. Don’t you know, we can rarely experience only joy without darkness. It’s ok though. There is hope. There is light as is represented by the golden yellow of the stairs and the gold that highlighted all the fragments.
I love how the plaster and the bricks touched each other and overlapped. I was reminded about how the old meets the new. I saw so many correlations to this. There is a time to separate the plaster of the past from the immediacy of the present. There is a time to let go of the fragments that we allowed to define us from the plaster years of days gone by.
I am not a child anymore. I am a warrior in spirit. I am grateful for my strength and fortitude in full gratitude to Jesus who gives me everything I need. Through him, I never gave up. I celebrate my insistence on another day, another opportunity, and another person to connect to.
Now…the rose. Oh, the rose. I love roses. They have their own story within mine. My love of roses has no end. I thought about doing a cluster of them, but once I was done with that single rose, I knew it was enough.
As I mentioned in the video, numbers always speak to me so I incorporated them into the background as well. They speak of time, distance, perspective, the future, and the past. They represent a time for hope, for breathing, and a time for friends.
Lastly, the staircase. Though it didn’t turn out the way I pictured it, it was just right. I was thinking about the words on the stairs and how full of truth they are. Strength upon strength. Truth upon truth.
She decided…
To live bravely. To love fully. To do things that make her beautiful inside. To be an adventurer. To guard her heart.
Until next time,
Be Blessed! – Beloved Reborn (Cara-Renee)
I hope you enjoy!
Link Tree Below – https://linktr.ee/b.rebornart
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Supplies used:
Golden Fluid Acrylics – https://www.amazon.com/s?k=golden+fluid+acrylic&crid=1ADT6N3B7C8DB&sprefix=golden+fluid+acrylic%2Caps%2C189&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Liquitex Matte Medium – https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-Professional-Matte-Medium-8-Ounce/dp/B000IYWYNE/ref=sr_1_3
Liquitex Gesso – https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-Professional-Clear-Surface-Medium/dp/B001UNTGRE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa
Shawn Petite Stencil – Roses – https://shop.shawnpetite.com/Wild-Roses-stencil-8×10-p739073061
Shawn Petite Stencil – Numbers Jumbled – https://shop.shawnpetite.com/Numbers-Jumbled-stencil-8×10-p155121087
Shwan Petite Stencil – Bricks – https://shop.shawnpetite.com/Bricks-and-bubbles-8×10-stencil-p74969854
Golden Transparent Brown Iron Oxide High Flow Acrylic – https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Arcylic-Paint-Ounce-Transparent/dp/B00E4PL0C4/ref=sr_1_8
Amsterdam Pink Paint – https://www.amazon.com/Amsterdam-Standard-Acrylic-Venetian-17093162/dp/B0014ZONEY/ref=sr_1_1
Golden Artist Acrylic – Quinacridone Crimson – this is not what I have but it is close – https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-Professional-Acrylic-Quinacridone-Crimson/dp/B0009RNUOW/ref=sr_1_12_