Resilience Gaining Ground ♥
KATIE BERGGREN
The newest piece in the Daylight Dreams Collection is complete. Each day I spend 3-7 hours standing at my easel, losing myself in these pieces.
The illustration of our journeys ~ the visual representation of our steps and successes ~ has become addictive to me. Plus, painting rocks is much more fun than it seems :)
This new piece had a big OOOOFF moment about a week ago, though. Read about it below. Her name is Resilience Gaining Ground, and here is her story:
My stone paintings so far have spelled out a story, and this piece displays a new portion of her journey. A period of time when things have fallen into place. Climbing has given way to hopping from stone to stone and moment to moment. The effort has shifted from hurling her body up and up, to maintaining a steady progression, with necessary pauses.
Sometimes we slip right off our stones, perhaps in a storm; we bang our knees but get back up and move consistently forward. Adapting to the pain, developing through transitions. Often we take others along, hand in hand, building strength together.
The grass has grown over the stones unchosen: earlier worries and decisions discarded. We let go of hurts and situations, options and trials that we knew wouldn’t stand the test of time.
At one point, after hours of diligent work on this painting, I realized that I had gotten lost in the details. I had lost the power of the piece in a myriad of colors and components. Her spirit, however, remained bright in those carefully chosen boulders, so I trusted that what she needed was a repair versus a coat of white paint to ‘undo-all’.
In a course-correct, intuition takes charge. A brush with a dark color rewrites the scene and restructures everything that has gone astray. Then, I began again by keeping the parts loved, and reworking where the mark was missed. Sounds like life, doesn’t it?
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Thank you for being here.
Love & Sincerely,
Katie
