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Pelican Bay and the Smith
River with Lotus
Essence:
What a surprise the Lotus
Blossom was to work with. I really thought it was going to be very
light, airy and fairy - like. I expected cotton candy pink visions with
rose haze highlights because that is how the Lotus blossom smells. What
I got was the reality of the Lotus: MUD. Wonderful, rich, deep, soulful
MUD. It prevailed no matter how careful I was to protect the light. It
wanted to express it's mudfulness. The dense, thickness of the leaf and
the sucking of the nutrients of the watery earth impacted me as I painted.
I felt humbled before it. However, the painting did settled down to a
very soft, pixie dust- like,cotton candy that I had suspected all along
but was hidden in the mud. Now it comes through in a cloud like glow.
Soft, but dense like a mushroom which grows near the mud.
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