The Long Journey Home

The Long Journey Home is a series of four acrylic paintings. What began as expressions of feelings, with no thought of what the paintings would become, with the only similarity being the same colors used in each, ended up being a story of this pilgrim’s progress.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition defines pilgrim as: 1. A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place. 2. A person who travels, especially to foreign lands or to a place of great personal importance.

The history of this pilgrimage is embedded in each of the 10 layers of paint. Under each image is a short video sequence of this passage. Each layer told a bit of the story through color, shape, movement, and the direction to go.

 

It’s a process that seems magical because at times the brush asserted its knowing, I was just along for the ride on the mystical journey. The colors excited me, the shapes captured my attention I kept asking for inspiration, then found clues.

 

 

Time, path, home, belonging, gateways, light, shadows, sanctuary, circles ~ infinity, triangles ~ roofs,  squares ~ stability, victory, return, exploration, map, scribe. An alternative title was “From Here to Eternity”.

 

So this is a series about Genesis (One with the Source of all Life), Journey (don’t forget how long the Path is) and Belonging (home and garden of Paradise).