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they are evidence.  They are the gold that was always present inside the pressure, the light that did not appear because the darkness lifted but because you learned to see differently.  The tension between ground and mark is never fully resolved in these paintings.  It was never meant to be.  Gratitude that costs nothing carries nothing.  These pieces carry everything.  \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-turn","title":"The Turn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Turn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Thank You series)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcrylic, latex, and texture paste on canvas - 30 x 40 in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a moment that comes after the longest seasons of darkness - not dramatic, not announced - when something inside simply shifts direction.  Not all at once.  Not without effort.  But irreversibly.  The fear that held the room begins to lose its quthority.  The weight that pressed everything flat begins, against all expectation, to lift.  This is not the moment the darkess ends.  This is the moment you stop moving deeper into it.  This is The Turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe multitude, the countless lives that have stood in their own version of this same darkness, each one a single point of consciousness in an uncountable field of shared human experience.  They are not alone.  You are not alone.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dots that lived in darkness appear again inside the gold - 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