The World Within

The World Within

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There is a lot of symbolism in this piece and it can be interpreted a number of different ways. I was tempted to call it “The Darkness Within” (owing to the fact that using such a dark, fell image of myself and the ruins of a beheaded queen’s castle lends itself to that title and thinking of inner demons – insanity and pain), but that would have hindered it from having a positive interpretation when one can definitely be had.

The World Within is a place of spirit and fantasy, where the two come together and provide a place of escape, inspiration, imagination, dreams and magic!

This piece is all about vision ...and that brings me to a very definite inspiration for this piece:

First off: looking deeper and taking the time to discover the hidden things.

The reason I thought to do this is because I was reminded of a story having to do with my dear and wonderful mother.

My mother is an amazing artist and an amazing person. She has more talent in her little finger than I have ever had throughout my entire being. Vocally – though we are both contraltos – she has always had the better range and control. She paints, writes, sculpts, plays the piano and the organ, and – as I say – sings.

She is also legally blind.

She was not always blind. In fact, once upon a time, she had better than perfect vision. This was attested to and documented by an opthomologist who gave her an exam one time. This is how the story goes…

My mother went to the eye doctor for an exam during which, as these exams go, the doctor instructed my mother to look at a poster on the wall opposite to where she was sitting in the examination chair, and he asked her if she could see “the dot” in the middle of the page. She responded, questioningly, to him, “You mean the man in the little boat?”

The doctor was nonplussed. He said, “Uhhhhh…”, and then he went over to the poster and peered at it closely with a magnifying glass. Sure enough, even though he – and none other of his patients – had ever seen it, there was a man in a little boat in the middle of the poster, and at the very bottom of the page , in tiny letters, was the title Man In Boat. My mother was the only one to have ever seen it as anything more than just a dot.

My mother has given me many things, but one of the most precious is the desire to look deeper – not just in the physical, but also metaphorically speaking. I will always be grateful.

As I say, her physical vision is now seriously diminished due to a tragic accident, but her spirit is not so diminished. She keeps creating wonderful works of art and music – even in the darkness, she finds the light.

This piece is for her.

Thank you, Mommy, for teaching me to see – to look – for more than just a dot!

All my own photos and textures used.

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