Virginia Cole

at Virginia Cole Fine Art

The Canal

It is a sunny summer day (yellow undertones). You are traveling a canal on a boat. It is Sunday family excursion (a check mark at lower left middle). Blue skies (blue rectangle on the right). The water is murky blue(the blue figure on the left). The canal is old : here and there you can see the marks of age and decay(the brown figure in the low right, the black figure on the upper left). From time to time you are catching yourself thinking about work, Monday, what you have to do in the office(the blueish white area in the upper right and all elements in it: brown square, black lines).

Esphyr Slobodkina

at Valerie Carberry Gallery

Sails, 1955

The left part(two rectangles) is how you imagine an adventure. The wind practically is tearing off the sails. You are full of hope, energy and speed. The shining polished ship is clipping the distance with astonishing velocity. The right part(the 3 small rectangles) is how it happens in real life. You are advancing in small, well calculated steps. You are working very hard to do a routine work over and over again. Only when you overcome all of those and all of pains then you get to the summit. But it is not an adventure, it is a victory over yourself. This is summit of your spirit.