A dark blue vase holds a full arrangement of flowers, each petal touched in shades of blue and gold, some catching light, others resting deeper in shadow. Nothing about it feels sparse or hesitant. The blooms rise close together, layered and abundant, as if the painting itself is in the middle of unfolding.
Shams Tabrizi wrote, "It is never late to ask yourself, am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity. Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying."
The vase, dark and grounded, holds everything that came before, the years, the versions of yourself you have already outgrown. But from it still rises this abundance of blue and gold, proof that even a life carried in something as heavy and deep as that vase can keep producing something radiant. Admiration is not only for what is finished or perfect. It is for the willingness to keep blooming again and again, breath by breath, refusing to let one day become a copy of the last.
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Title: Admiration Technique: Mixed Media on Canvas Year Painted: 2009 Original Sold | Prints Available
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