“Timing”

2016 | 9”x12” | Mixed-media:
Prismacolor Verithin red/blue colored pencil, Derwent Inktense pencils, white charcoal, and water brush on cold press watercolor paper.
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Here, the owl from “IMPRESSIONS” makes his second appearance. This time, he has donned a new mask, further concealing both his feelings and truth. The human mask represents the effort to be what he is not, the denial of his free nature. His wings, broad and powerful, are bound by the threads of his making. He holds himself restricted to his chosen path, keeping his feet on the ground and his head out of the clouds. He thrashes in the petals that drop from above. As for whether he is reaching for or recoiling from the key to her heart... I leave that to the viewer.

“TIMING” acknowledges that sometimes there is only a small window in which connections can be made. Some try to force it, like a key into an ill-fitting lock. Others delay, frozen by doubt. While some count the minutes until the perfect opportunity rings. Whether fast or slow, if the timing isn’t right, if your hands don’t meet up or they fail to align on the face of that great cosmic clock... Then it’s time to move on.
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FLORIOGRAPHY:
• Daisies: “He loves me... He loves me not...” Also known as The Daisy Oracle—a game of plucking petals from the yellow center of an ox-eye daisy while trying to divine whether or not the object of your affection returns your affection, originally cited in a 1471 German nursery rhyme.
• Pansies: “You are in my thoughts”; from the French “pensée,” meaning “a thought put into literary form,” from the English “penser,” (to think), derived from the Latin “pendere” (to weigh or consider).