VISUALIZING PEACE

This canvas was inspired by the question "what imagery would you use to describe feeling peace?" The answers I got all contained an aspect of nature in them. There were descriptions such as the sun baking on a warm day and a fat bird in a tree with nothing to do. Many contained the same sort of description but there were still a few outliers. One response was the ocean/water and another said rain. To try and capture this I had the background smeared in ways to appear like the paint was raining down on the canvas while still keeping the theme. I also added the curls in the middle to represent the waves of the ocean and the wind that someone had described. All of the responses gave me a very innocent and whimsical feeling while reading them and that is how I got the idea to structure this canvas. I feel as though we were all the most at peace when we were kids because even if things were happening to disturb our peace, we were too innocent to understand. As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss. For this reason and also because of the description I received I decided to format the canvas like a child's drawing of a typical nature scene. I went with the classic sun-in-the-corner look for the scene and had the tree formatted as my childhood self would. I deepened the roots however to show that even though we have moments in this childlike state, we have grown deeper roots than we had before. I did my best to stick with my abstract medium and color scheme and I did my best with blending those two as well as the childhood drawing aspect into the canvas. But as my wind shows, time is fleeting and nothing gold can stay.