Spinning pain into joy
I started my TeddyBear Tears Kaleidoscopes series (“deceptively bright expressions of pain and anger over repressed childhood trauma“) in 2017. I don’t know if my resistance to a palette of only/mostly dark shades and muted colours is a strategy to keep the horror at bay, a refusal to use obvious ‘inner demons’ imagery (replaced here with traditional symbols of childhood), or a desire to focus on the moments of happiness (cue “Cats” soundtrack?). It may be the same subconscious thing that stopped me, for 30 years, from writing any poetic prose after Somewhere. And only a few pieces since.
The first piece in the image here is actually the latest in the series. And it is spun from an over-night photograph of snow drifts in a park downtown- will some colour shifting.
Each of these pieces is available on canvas, metal, acrylic, wood or fine art papers at my Fine Art America gallery. These pieces are not available smaller than 24″ due to the amount of detail they contain.
Below is an overview of the 20 pieces in this series (as of today). This image links to an even larger version.
I have a few more posts about my kaleidoscope designs.
