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Santa Fe West
30 x40 Oils on Canvas
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by Laurie Pace
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood.
Glancing back in Feb of 2010 comes this gorgeous rich painting filled with the colors of the west. I may be forgetting but was thinking this one went west across the Pacific. The paint is thick and the colors spoke of Sante Fe. We had visited there a few years before with my parents.
The painting is full of rotation both with the palette knife as well as with color. I started to search for a quote about going west... but I came across the quote above and was impressed by it. Read it again... We cannot go back to a life before or return to from where we came. We have to learn to live in the present right where we are.
Contentment Right Where You Are
WOW... this hits home for Hubby and me. We continued to chase the perfect house, a better place, and in and out of trying to 'go back' to our Lake Highlands stomping grounds where we grew up and where most of our family lived. We would fix homes up while we lived in them and then sell them for a bit more profit. That worked until 2008 downfall, and when we sold the totally redone home (the Frank Lloyd Wright home) we should have been able to sell on the high side but the market sunk.... and it caught us for the first time loosing almost all of our equity.
"Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me." Philippians 4:11-13
Follow the Spirit of the Paint... with Laurie Pace
Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist
Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.
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