Paint simplicity.
Paint community.
Tell about how beautiful it is.
Tell about how wondrous it is.
Remind people-yourself first-what it feels like to live
together.
Remind people-yourself first-what it means to be next to someone
neighbor
to know
to connect
to respond.
Make it simple.
Starlings fly in Murmurations.
Groups held together in wondrous community not by a leader, but by each bird responding to the five or six alongside. Altogether this murmuring connectivity creates the awe-inspiring designs in the sky we humans look up to in amazement and delight.
Surely they’ve done this for eons.
And yet here we are, experiencing them anew, in our Youtube day.
Murmur is my response to the visceral wonder of murmurations.
To recreate the emotions which watching a Murmuration evoke has resulted in
Murmur. An encaustic installation.
Remind humanity of the simplicity of life.
Remind humanity of the joy of community.
Remind each other of the delight of everyday wonder.
Make it simple.
I paint to express. To tell. To evoke. To invoke.
To rise and flow emotion. To tell a story.
Sometimes vaguely rendered.
Sometimes explicitly stated.
Sometimes not seen until everything comes together.
Murmur: An utterance traveling from one to another. Passing on of a message; quickly, succinctly.
Simply.
Like Starlings, connect, commune, encourage, and in that, delight a greater something watching, feeling, sensing.
Let’s get back to that.
Make it simple.