For a good three years I struggled with this piece and last year reached a final resolution.
I worked on this painting throughout my Mother's Final Illness and eventual Death; it has gone through numerous edits and helped me to navigate a Long Passage of Profound Grief.
Several years back I took an Astronomy Course along with the accompanying Lab. I saw my first Celestial Globe, and considered the View of Planet Earth from Deep Space. I think that Celestial Globes are among the Most Beautiful Things That I Have Ever Seen.
Here is Maine, Two White Pines and an Eclipse viewed from Space behind The Big Dipper, a collapsed view to be sure, with a healthy dose of Artistic License.
Last Summer's Eclipse gave me the information that I needed to wind up the work.
The three Astrological Symbols at the bottom represent The Sun, The Moon and Chiron, or The Wounded Healer which were all at Nineteen Degrees during the event.
Numerological Speaking, the Number Nineteen adds up to the Number One and the Beginning of a New Cycle.
