{"id":604,"date":"2011-10-15T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2011-10-15T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:06:21","slug":"when-art-speaks-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"When Art Speaks To You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to have been absent for a while. There are myriad things going on behind the scenes, and while I don&#8217;t use the blog to air personal issues, I&#8217;ll say this. Take care of your spine. If it causes you pain, there&#8217;s most likely a reason for it. Years of not listening to my body is finally catching up with me.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, when ART is the thing speaking to you, it can be fun to listen to as well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The housemate and I went to a Rummage Sale (for lack of a better term) today. I&#8217;ve never really enjoyed combing through castoffs for the hidden jewel, but something bid me go today. So, I went. There, I found, for a ridiculously low sum (under $10) a framed print that not only spoke to me, it wouldn&#8217;t let me go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mainpainting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-609\" title=\"Main Painting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mainpainting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mainpainting.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mainpainting-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s an abstract, but &#8230; somehow different. More than just colour thrown on a canvas, or the cleaning of an artists brush, there&#8217;s &#8230; hidden objects in this painting that are not of my imagination.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a figure with arms outstretched:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureleft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-606\" title=\"figureleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureleft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureleft.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureleft-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and she seems to be reaching for, or releasing a bird:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-605\" title=\"bird\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bird.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bird-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are hands reaching up from below, even.<\/p>\n<p>Then, from the top corner of the paining, another figure emerges:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figuretop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-608\" title=\"figuretop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figuretop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figuretop.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figuretop-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>also with arms outstretched, but I don&#8217;t know what, if anything, she&#8217;s holding.<\/p>\n<p>The last figure I discovered (so far) is in the lower right&#8230; and the arm is bent as if there is a blanket folded over the arm, yet the hand is folded back in a strange position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureright.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-607\" title=\"figureright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureright.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureright.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/figureright-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s a little trickier to see, as the face is looking down, and the eye is far more pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in the corner of my living room, opposite what I call Meditation Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Blue, who at 42, still likes looking at clouds and seeing what I might make of them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to have been absent for a while. There are myriad things going on behind the scenes, and while I don&#8217;t use the blog to air personal issues, I&#8217;ll say this. Take care of your spine. If it causes you pain, there&#8217;s most likely a reason for it. 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