Oil on canvas
Each canvas is 36 by 12 inches
Finally complete, this triptych took a lot of effort on my behalf. It also took a long time for me to finish because I only worked on it here and there for the past year. However, I'm rather proud of the outcome. I'm not sure if I'll be doing more triptychs in the future but I already have an idea for a series. Long before the completion of this project I came up with a bit of prose for this particular piece which I post below.
The Guardians, The Ghost and the Wayward Heart.
Suns and moons
of eons go by. Cumulus formations adrift in a sky composed of many
shades of blues. I see them all passing by as I sit here, chained and
rooted.
The Guardians, women in white dresses that billow in the breezes of
ages, do not speak to me. The emotionless masks they wear has worn me
down. In the beginning when time was a child, I spoke to them
incessantly, tirelessly, yet they never answer. They are stones eternal
upon which I cast my crumbling hopes.
My heart, stored in a canopic jar in the shape of an ancient deity
left me a long time ago. It travels in the hands of others, passing
place to place, person to person - a wanderer in its own right. A
wayward heart that will never return home.
I am alone here except for the ghost of my lover that torments me.
Wordlessly it hovers in front of me and in shame I don my own
emotionless mask. The forgiveness I yearn for will never be given.
