Here is the piece that I created for the Stormy Weather Art Festival in Cannon Beach. DragonFire Gallery’s theme is The Space Between the Notes.
I took some time to really consider what this meant and what it meant to me personally. A moment (or a time) when things changed – or I changed. When from one moment to the next during that space in time – something’s different – I’m different.
For me, this piece reflects a time in my life that I learned love myself…quirks and all. I was 22. I had just bought my first home. I was alone for the first time in my ‘adult’ life. I hardly had any idea who I really was. I got to know myself – what I liked and didn’t. What was important to me and what I wanted to strive towards. That even my ‘oddities’ were normal….we all have them. But I learned what made me… me.
So Embracing My Differences is a 24×36″ acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, with the surfacing painting continuing onto the canvas edges.