THORNS
FUCHSIA ROSES / self portrait
24 x 24 inches
Life has THORNS
I spent the morning of the Autumn Equinox 2023 in Hamilton's Gage Park. I was looking for the goddess - I wanted to talk to God.
I took my shoes off and walked on dew soaked grass. I watched the sky brighten and gave thanks.
The most magnificent rose blooms appear in autumn - so do adult, darkened thorns. They are razor sharp.
Roses were once how I made a handsome income. Now, the flowers are a symbol and reminder that the beauty of life has thorns and that too much caution makes life ugly and incomplete.
I quickly memorized as many roses as I could as I drifted from one rose bush to the next - not unlike a hungry bee. I absorbed the colours, filling myself like a quill drinking ink.
As autumn's first sun burned off the mist - I left with the magic I wanted. I felt ready.
I was steeped in the scent of roses and felt the harmony of the divine.
I was scratched but blessed.
ROSE PATH
24 x 24 inches
GOD AND THE GODDESS
24 x 24 inches
AUTUMN THORNS
24 x 24 inches
TRANQUILITY
24 x 24 inches
THE AWAKENING IN THE ROSE GARDEN
18 x 24 inches
GAGE PARK
,,,bewitched, bothered and bewildered - no more, Ella Fitzgerald
18 x 24 inches