About this painting . . .
This painting had quite an evolution. I struggled to pose an organic, life-giving form interacting with one that was more structured and bound. A part of us, I felt, can be wooden and stiff, even fascinating like a well-shaped musical instrument. But to come alive and produce vibrant music or responses to life, we need contact with an energy that can cause the wooden part of us to flex and become spirited. Here I name that force Elixir of Life.