'Vastness Within' Original Oil Painting
In this imagined world the singular individual self experiences a state of oneness and pure bliss as it opens up its physical body to the light of the world. The anatomical body is shown as we are deeper than our skin. With this comes thought of the fleeting mortality of humans.
The warm face of the sun is not only reflective of that individual, but it resembles a farther reach of consciousness as it connects to the rest of the world with its distancing gaze. The magnificent ocean and world around it resembles all of life and the earth itself as the body symbolically roots itself within it. There is always constant growth and beautiful evolution. And it all commences within each individual.
Measurements are 20x16 and one inch deep for width. Comes ready to hang with hook and wire. Created in 2023
In this imagined world the singular individual self experiences a state of oneness and pure bliss as it opens up its physical body to the light of the world. The anatomical body is shown as we are deeper than our skin. With this comes thought of the fleeting mortality of humans.
The warm face of the sun is not only reflective of that individual, but it resembles a farther reach of consciousness as it connects to the rest of the world with its distancing gaze. The magnificent ocean and world around it resembles all of life and the earth itself as the body symbolically roots itself within it. There is always constant growth and beautiful evolution. And it all commences within each individual.
Measurements are 20x16 and one inch deep for width. Comes ready to hang with hook and wire. Created in 2023
In this imagined world the singular individual self experiences a state of oneness and pure bliss as it opens up its physical body to the light of the world. The anatomical body is shown as we are deeper than our skin. With this comes thought of the fleeting mortality of humans.
The warm face of the sun is not only reflective of that individual, but it resembles a farther reach of consciousness as it connects to the rest of the world with its distancing gaze. The magnificent ocean and world around it resembles all of life and the earth itself as the body symbolically roots itself within it. There is always constant growth and beautiful evolution. And it all commences within each individual.
Measurements are 20x16 and one inch deep for width. Comes ready to hang with hook and wire. Created in 2023
More insight |
Yogis around the world experience unique versions of this state of being while in varying poses. Art and yoga are expressions of the human inner feeling. They are related and I want this painting to remind one that there is a deeper realization and emotion you can achieve through the path to the self healing journey. Yoga and art are just a part of it.
The heart opening camel pose, or ustrasana, is a deep backbend heart opening release of the body and mind. I chose to depict the state of freedom one can feel in this pose with the 2-D medium of oil paint. I came up with this vison a couple months back, completed a large scale version of it in water color, and decided to re-do it in my specialty medium.
This concept was felt to far deep within me to let it just exist as a watercolor, I needed oils to emerge it into a reality.