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Art Blog

Balance

2/14/2019

 

“Balance is not something you find, it's something
​you create.” 
 
- Jana Kingsford

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Cairn in the Morning Mist 48X24 Oil on canvas
Cairns have become a personal symbol in my quest to live a
well-balanced life.  You start with a solid foundation stone and build from there.  Day-by-day, year-by-year, we build our inner cairn constantly balancing the many facets of our lives – personal pursuits, professional goals, relationships, order, rhythm and harmony.  When they are out of balance our cairn falls down.  Failure? No, but we must rebuild our cairn all over again. When our life is balanced we feel it. Balance is an internal state.
 
When I come across someone else’s cairn, sitting strong on the edge of a great lake, or precariously on a windswept promontory, I know I have found another seeker searching for balance in their lives. Seeing these creative stacks of rocks created and left behind by others, inspires my paintings. I consider these paintings to be collaborations with seekers I’ve never met.
 
The painting, Cairn in the Morning Mist, was inspired by a cairn built a couple feet offshore in Lake Superior near Grand Marais, Minnesota.  The sun was just rising through the early morning mist.



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