This piece is one where life and death, birth and entropy are occurring simultaneously. My daughter wrote a letter to a dear friend with AIDS and she expressed to him her belief that he was going on a journey to the other side of birth. The name for this painting comes from her letter to him and the idea of life and death being similar adventures, not ordeals to be endured, but sojourns through time to be experienced fully. Love is necessary for this journey.
Love is alchemical and ignites the transformation.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone understands how much about love an artist's life is. How much we cherish color, light, lines, shapes, materials, textures, images, nature and life itself. How else can we understand what we do than to acknowledge that we are gripped by passion and like a woman in labor must birth that which is within us.