What is success? What does that mean for you, success?
I think we can all agree self-destruction is an odd personal strategy, if that’s not really what you’re after. The saboteur in us rather gleefully goes about subtly or overtly creating chaos, and there is a kind of reasoning to it, but why encourage it?
Recently I’ve been saying it’s time to get out of my own way.
At the same time I’ve been thinking about Magic. Not sleight of hand, but rather an uncanny sense of possibilities, of the extraordinary. Of not knowing, or being sure of what’s happening or coming. All the senses heightened, I’m waiting, learning to be patient again.
I took a 12 hour hiking trip with my brother-in-law José and his hunting partner Pat recently, up to 12,000 ft off the Gore Trail, to help them pack out elk meat from a kill José had made the previous week. I experienced many feelings, thoughts, pains, and came back and painted this piece, ghost elk.
ghost elk, acrylic, oil pastel, and pencil on canvas, 27” x 24”, 2022