acrylics and inks on canvas 60×50cm

.. I have been taken by a notion from a book of Blessings by John O’Donohue that we should bless and befriend our alternate lives …… you know all those lives we could have had IF we did not do or did this or that decision leading to the life we ended up with …… hhhmmmm
…. this town seems to be an imaginary version of a town where I spent most horrible year of my life .. left it ..thinking I will never return … did return many years later all the way from Australia back to Czech republic … this time having three of the most beautiful months in life due to the hospitality of some precious people there …. we’ve lived then with daughter right at the historic town centre, taking it all in …..
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I can see in those shadowy figures Adam Bogusz’s inspiration for sure
also inspired by the famous poem by Czeclaw Milosz
here is a part of it :
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
“Esse” (1954), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Pinsky