Loner

Acrylic painting on tempered hardboard, 15" x 24", inspired by Sandie Bell's marvelous photograph at pmp-art.com.

Thank you Sandie for sharing! The photograph reminded me a photo of myself leaning against the railing of a bridge when I visited MIT many years ago shortly after I came to US.

I did not know at the time when I painted this painting that the original photograph was very special to Sandie, but I sensed something special in the photograph. At one point when I was painting I decided to paint as it was in the photograph, so I sketched in the man standing on the bridge, but immediately I knew that I could not handle it, I could not handle the special energy in the photograph. That special energy had to do with the man. Then I decided to paint following my own feeling. The girl in the painting symbolizes me.

I always like Loneliness, one of my dear husband's poems, though he doesn't think this one is good.

Sing as the birds in May,

Hear the sparkling bluejay.

Dance as the leaves in the wind,

Sprinkle rain on the thirsty ground.

Run, run, toward the sun,

Let it guide toward the One.

The Heavens declare a soul,

And the bursting heart stops.

As if it never were.

Ay, the leaves rustle and sound,

But, ... it is so lonely.