One way or the other, setbacks befall all humans, whether in the form of trials, tribulations, pressures, problems, pain, sufferings, sicknesses, disappointments, defeats, delays, hardships, challenges, losses, failures or whatever. Just name it. Life just throws them at us sometimes in plurals and also in different shades, shapes and sizes. What more? History shows that as each one of us seeks to live life, no one is exempt from the hard or harsh bashing they inflict at one time or the other.
Drawing on the artist's observations and experience from her own share of these hard knocks from life, in “The Gaze,” she unveils her perception that cultivating and harnessing the habit of gazing into each of these reverses with a solution mindset opens to us a window into the light that lies at the end of the tunnel. The end result is a transformation that can only lead to victory.
To express this insight, “The Gaze” is executed as a contemporary abstract painting in which the artist uses mixed-media technique, deploying colors, stripes and textures, creating bumps and other visual impressions which are depicted either in multiples or otherwise to illustrate the myriads of batterings which life visits on us, the muddled emotions that come with all of that, the natural eagerness for solution and the intense focus on locating and applying the solution.
“The Gaze” elevates single-eyed solution-minded focus as the positive pathway to overcoming the vicissitudes of life over and above the negativity of over-thinking which, on the other hand, traps its captive into a vicious mental cycle that leads only downhill to unmitigated defeat.
