Colorful Friend

Reside in silent ground. In inability to relate to life. A choice for inner silence.

The Story Behind the Image

Healing story emerging as art

Colorful Friend. Reside in silent ground.
In inability to relate to life.
A choice for inner silence.

I just heard the news. He is no longer here. I’m going to walk, for hours in the dark. Just to keep moving. If I sit down now, I won’t get up again.

A shock runs through me.

Words that come to mind, I write them down.
A colorful person who seemed impossible to express his full intensity.
So much talent, passion, and skill, yet burdened by destructive self-criticism.

In search of an image, a form a way of processing. It helps me to organize and mourn.
His little dogs, his creativity, musicianship, and the strings that have now been broken.
The lightness, the life, the depth and intensity, as well as the darkness, the suffocating, the insurmountable.

I seek form, composition, balance, and play. To bring it all together and connect the lightness and darkness we are all familiar with.
Both were tangible and deserve their space..to be.

Artwork Details

Year: 2023

Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm

Technique: Embodied Felt Expression: A method that is highly intuitive and feeling-based. Extensive exploration of a theme or processing of a bodily experience. An integrative approach. Using an expressive brush in Procreate, the feeling takes shape. Sometimes abstract, sometimes narrative imagery. These are stories of deep embodiment and the experience of inner space and connection.; Procreate

Style: Colorful, Emotional Exploration, Expression of darkness, Felt Sense, Healing Art, Inner Landscape, Portrait, Trauma Informed Art

Work in Progress Video

Poetic expression

Return to your silent ground
Colorful in everything
Repressed and reserved

Expression condemned
Sounds inhibited

Powerful expressive core
Yet unable to convey

Uncover the Ultimate
Eternal love

Birds singing
Deep silence
Serenity

Touched by the white noise of eternity
A veil once experienced,
always in attention,
in burning desire

May you reside in this silent space,
where the birds sing for you,
in the eternal timelessness.

Dear friend, rest in peace.

Gedicht (NL)

De terugkeer in je stille grond
Kleurrijk in alles
Geremd evenzo

Uitdrukking veroordeeld
Klanken beperkt

Krachtige expressieve kern
Onvermogen vrij te uiting

Je ontmoet het ultieme
De eeuwige liefde

Vogels zingen
Diepe stilte
Ritme van sereniteit

Geraakt door de witte ruis van het eeuwige
Een sluier eens ervaren,
altijd in aandacht,
in brandend verlangen

Moge je verblijven in deze stille ruimte,
waar de vogels voor je zingen,
in de eeuwige tijdloosheid.

Lieve vriend, rust in vrede.

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