“My God, when you really begin to peer into something, a simple object, and realize the profound meaning of that thing - if you have an emotion about it, there’s no end,” Andrew Wyeth
my favorite painting of Wyeth's is titled
"Wind From the Sea".
it is a still life portrait-
a portrait of a person's character, without that person actually being in the painting.
this intrigues me, as i wonder what still life would so intricately represent me, as he has so richly captured the very essence of who he believed Christina to be. it also requires further reflection that there was a painter who saw her in this way. a painter known best for painting only what he is most familiar with and connected to. i am willing to suggest, that even the way he did see her was quite possibly more than she saw of herself, at least portrayed in such a mysterious way. it is apparent to me, from this perspective of who she is, that he was inspired by her spirit from with in. the meaning lies not in what is merely seen or even in what has been painted onto the canvas, in as much as what emotions are evoked out of the feeling you receive from it, both as a whole, truly haunting, but then also in part. there is movement in the breeze, entering in through the opened window. invited. the use of earthy, dark, meloncholy colors, anchor that sense of stillness. waiting. yet a path that seems to have no specific destination, offering an assurance of being at the center of it all. arrived.
if i am to be honest with continuing in a search of "what" might dipict me with similar depth and profound knowledge of my soul, i must also, more importantly, be just as curious to come to know the identity of this One who claims to know me so deeply...
