Thursday Thoughts...

“What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you’ve made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.” 

Robert Motherwell

Oh my - your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between. What a moment.

We have both been fortunate this last little while to sell some pieces. Some on-line, some in galleries faraway; some at our Open Studio and some at our recent exhibition.  In these latter two cases, we were present when pieces spoke straight to a person's heart and they had to make the purchase there and then, with not another thought, not a moment's reasoning, not a long, slow deliberation in which they convinced themselves that this was probably what they were thinking they might have been looking for after all...

No these were lightning moments, when bolts of recognition leapt between the piece and the person and the piece had found its home.

I know I have felt like that with work - where it has spoken straight to my heart and I have known immediately that it was right, and that we had somehow found each other.

And of course those moments happen without purchase as well. When people engage longingly with your piece; have an internal conversation with it, reach out to it, it reaches back. And yet for whatever reason they can't be together. This happens in public galleries too where somebody else already owns it and it it is not available for sale, and those moments are still magical.

This is one of those pieces for me - a portion of Rosalie Gascoigne's Feathered Fence. I saw it in Melbourne several years ago - it took my breath away. I knew where she had made this piece - Lake George near Canberra - and I knew the fences; the feel of the fences and the birds...