I know that many of you attended my recent show at the Art Association of Oswego and this was one of the works. It's title at the time "Portals and Caves".......because that is how, consciously I thought that I was painting it, but it may be changed in the future. One day before the opening is when I found the lump in my breast and armpit through self exam, and being a cancer survivor I knew it was something. This painting (one day before the show) was not complete. It was actually meant to hang vertically and only had the blue and green "slice". I knew something was not right, so I turned the canvas and painted a horizontal marathon to what I thought at the time, was to follow the theme of the show of "What is Your Vestibule".
The hubby saw the image in the painting first, because he knows that I paint in the subconscious a lot. He did not say anything the night of the opening for obvious reasons.
If you look at the left side of the work there is a profile of a breast with smaller masses and one darker being encircled in bright orange. This painting had been on my easel for a month, without an idea to go further and I finished it that day in about 3 hours. It just goes to show how passion and emotion (good or bad) can bring out energy and ideas in an artist (sometimes you won't even know where the ideas come from)! Just thought that I would share that this morning as I have been up since 3am because of the steroids in the chemo! Good night everyone.........