"Please Save _______"
For Movement 2: Kyrie (From The Victoria Requiem)
16 x 16 inches unframed, 20 x 20 inches framed
Monotype print, oil pastel, & graphite
While the first movement conveys a pure, unwavering faith in the divine, this movement introduces a seed of doubt… ourselves. The faith in the divine’s ability to save is there, but the fear is in our own worthiness. This piece still carries the gold-and-white ‘faithful’ color scheme of the first movement, but instead of bold strokes upward in invocations forming temples, it is a meandering trail in broken (but still golden) spots, like pond stepping stones with jumps of faith needed between each one. Have you ever hoped for something so much you can’t pray for it? This piece is an illustration of the prayer for the thing so on the ‘edge of a knife’ that you are afraid to even think it, voice it, or lace it together in a complete sentence. The feeling of adding “thy will be done” to a hope not in humility, but as an insurance clause in case it doesn’t happen, because you might not recover if it doesn’t.
For me, this piece is titled “Please save my dad”, who is in end stages of Parkinson’s. It is also “Please save the Earth.” For you, the end of the title may be something or someone else.
Note: If you will be collecting your artwork at the concert Saturday evening, use code CONCERTPICKUP at checkout to waive shipping fees.
For Movement 2: Kyrie (From The Victoria Requiem)
16 x 16 inches unframed, 20 x 20 inches framed
Monotype print, oil pastel, & graphite
While the first movement conveys a pure, unwavering faith in the divine, this movement introduces a seed of doubt… ourselves. The faith in the divine’s ability to save is there, but the fear is in our own worthiness. This piece still carries the gold-and-white ‘faithful’ color scheme of the first movement, but instead of bold strokes upward in invocations forming temples, it is a meandering trail in broken (but still golden) spots, like pond stepping stones with jumps of faith needed between each one. Have you ever hoped for something so much you can’t pray for it? This piece is an illustration of the prayer for the thing so on the ‘edge of a knife’ that you are afraid to even think it, voice it, or lace it together in a complete sentence. The feeling of adding “thy will be done” to a hope not in humility, but as an insurance clause in case it doesn’t happen, because you might not recover if it doesn’t.
For me, this piece is titled “Please save my dad”, who is in end stages of Parkinson’s. It is also “Please save the Earth.” For you, the end of the title may be something or someone else.
Note: If you will be collecting your artwork at the concert Saturday evening, use code CONCERTPICKUP at checkout to waive shipping fees.
For Movement 2: Kyrie (From The Victoria Requiem)
16 x 16 inches unframed, 20 x 20 inches framed
Monotype print, oil pastel, & graphite
While the first movement conveys a pure, unwavering faith in the divine, this movement introduces a seed of doubt… ourselves. The faith in the divine’s ability to save is there, but the fear is in our own worthiness. This piece still carries the gold-and-white ‘faithful’ color scheme of the first movement, but instead of bold strokes upward in invocations forming temples, it is a meandering trail in broken (but still golden) spots, like pond stepping stones with jumps of faith needed between each one. Have you ever hoped for something so much you can’t pray for it? This piece is an illustration of the prayer for the thing so on the ‘edge of a knife’ that you are afraid to even think it, voice it, or lace it together in a complete sentence. The feeling of adding “thy will be done” to a hope not in humility, but as an insurance clause in case it doesn’t happen, because you might not recover if it doesn’t.
For me, this piece is titled “Please save my dad”, who is in end stages of Parkinson’s. It is also “Please save the Earth.” For you, the end of the title may be something or someone else.
Note: If you will be collecting your artwork at the concert Saturday evening, use code CONCERTPICKUP at checkout to waive shipping fees.