Birthing (Out of Darkness, Light is born)

Sometimes when I don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell me, or I am not quite sure where a painting is taking me, it helps me to remember that…

“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine,
for it is the experience of receiving and bearing.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke

acrylic on Masonite panel, framed,
21.75 x 14.75 inches (55 x 37.5 cm)