Mind Garden Exhibition Stretched Canvas Print
Mind Garden Exhibition Stretched Canvas Print
Canvas Quality: Exhibition Canvas is a An acid free, heavyweight cotton-poly blend, this elegantly textured canvas features a matte non-reflective surface. 1.5-inch gallery wrap. is ready to hang on your wall. THE UNSTRETCHED CANVAS OPTION IS NOT WALL MOUNT READY. PRINT ONLY.
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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. it took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” - Mary Oliver
The Darkness….
I started this painting in 2014. I was fresh out of a bad breakup, with an abusive prick. After a short stint on my best friend’s couch, I picked up the keys to my new apartment/art studio. All I had was a burgundy couch in the living room and a mattress in my bedroom. I was “starting over” from scratch. All my bad choices had finally caught up to me. I felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest, but ironically I also felt a profound sense of freedom. I was no longer a prisoner to the abuse I had previously endured. I was bruised but not broken. This time in my life paved the way for the greatest period of inspiration I have ever experienced to date. Every frustration that turned my hands into fists, every moment that turned my anger to tears, every ounce of pain that beat my inner child into submission, culminated to some of my greatest works.
The Gift….
I unrolled a fresh, unstretched primed canvas onto the floor in my living room, which was also my art studio. I didn’t have a tarp. I figured this would protect my freshly polished wood floors from being tarnished. I painted so many paintings in that studio, on that canvas. There were canvases everywhere.
With each masterpiece, paint splattered. One night, during one of my 3am painting sessions, I noticed that my “Tarp” had developed into something rather colorful, and beautiful. So I began to add to it, here and there, in a more intentional way. On the side, so to speak, while I was painting other paintings over it. Until one glorious day….. I removed everything on that canvas/”tarp”.
Through the tears, through the hustle, through all of the uncertainty, through me singing at the top of my lungs at 2am, a garden of color had bloomed right beneath my feet. This painting is an archive of many paintings and many moments during my three years in that studio. During the great ascension of what is the Posh Pirate brand today.