Little Marks of Spring in Nature Green & Teal I

Details:

• Original 6 × 8 inch mixed media painting on deckled-edge watercolor paper

• Mounted with tape onto an 11 × 14 inch original watercolor backing 

• Sized to fit a standard 11 × 14 inch ready-made frame

The meaning behind this collection

This year, I was more attentive to the blooming and withering of the flowers in our field. I watched the clovers spring up, bloom yellow, fade to pale pink, wither to brown, and return to the earth. I have been reading a book by Broken Bread by Tilly Dillehay, and her perspective on the physical parts of our lives relating to the spiritual gave me a new sense of appreciation and awareness for the beauty in creation.

I’m not sad because the flowers withered away. It was a joy to watch the process unfold. It reminded me that I, too, will return to dust—not in a scary sense, but in the sense that I can enjoy the physical things of this life while knowing they only point to something greater. And I know who that greater One is, so I can praise Him and thank Him for the work of His hands!

“As for man, his days are like grass;

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

and its place knows it no more.”

Psalm 103:15–16