"Sunburst"

36 X 24 Acrylics on Canvas “Sunburst”

One of those paintings I can spend hours looking at. I started on this piece this the night Jax Art Studios closed. Wedged between stacks of canvases , a fridge, and a range of emotions I hadn’t process since we got the Notice to Vacate, I mixed, dabbed, cried, danced, and focused all my energy into bringing the colors to life.

The next few days were spent in a flurry of needing to finish this painting. With everything else in my life up in the air, the only thing i could grasp any control of was the palette knife and the color. Portrait Artist Angela Magpusao once told me “F* what everyone else thinks. Paint what you see. It’s your vision” so that’s what I did. Sunrises and sunsets don’t look the same to me like they do to most people. My vision is fractured. Like slowly watching a glass picture shatter, but instead of in a split second, it’s over decades.

As I painted, I reminded myself as long as I have a corner, paint, and a canvas - I’ll be alright.