- Year
- 2022
- Medium
- Oil on Canvas
- Size
- 30 × 36 in · 76 × 91 cm
This piece is an exploration of an idea that has haunted creative minds since the beginning of time - that gain seldom comes without grains of lost. To master a discipline, to hone a skill, to follow passion to its source inevitably demands tests of perseverance, occasions of struggle, costs paid in patience and persistence. One plants seeds in hope, yet the growing season belongs to forces beyond command. All any man may do is tend carefully his patch of earth and weather whatever weather may come, in faith that sun will follow rain as dawn light swallows dark.
It is my hope that those who glimpse this small reflection will carry with them not a message of gloom but of grounded resolve. We all know pain in our own ways, and life deals out more than any of us deserves - but it is what we do while feeling its sting that gives our experiences meaning. From hardship can spring hard-won wisdom, from doubt the discoveries that reshape us. May this piece be for the viewer not a brooding on sorrows past but a reminder to walk on in hope of sunnier tomorrows, finding purpose that trancends whatever pains may cross our paths along life's journey.