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| 'Wishing Star #3' 10" X 10" Mixed Media, plaster on Canvas then covered in clear resin Finished sides, painting wraps around edges, needs no frame. $85.00 |
| ‘Wishing Star #3′ 10″ x 10″ oils, plaster, a gold leafed real starfish, flat backed marbles, text on vellum, mirrors, polished semi precious stones and resin Needs no frame, (can’t be framed, I used plaster around the edges and then covered it in resin too) ready to hang Here is the quote for this work: “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what at last I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.” ~Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) *** The words on this work are: Discover, Yourself, & Live out loud The very first wishing star was made for a gallery show on mixed media. After the show I brought the work back home, where my youngest child asked if he could have it in his room for a little while. I said, of course you can, but why? He had been having nightmares for a few weeks, and he said that he thought that the star would protect him at night and keep his bad dreams away. Needing a good night's sleep as badly as he did I hung it in his room that very day. Because the stars are made with tons of mirrors, glitters, reflective metals and glass marbles they reflect light even in a dark room with just a night light on. It worked like magic, no more bad dreams. Time travel with me to the present, four years later...my son comes into the studio and asked out of the blue, Mom, why don't you make magic wishing stars anymore? Kids need magic and art too. Maybe there is a kid out there (or a grown up kid too :)) that might really need a wishing star, maybe you could make some for those other kids too. That's just what I did, I started making stars. I have three so far, two are ready for sale, this is one of them, this one I used a real starfish after I gold leafed it instead of a metal star. Also, all the stones in this work were collected by me over the course of ten years. I cut and polished them myself as well. So, do you know someone who needs a little magic and art in their lives? Well, here at BAD! Kitty we aim to please, so no worries, we have you covered. :) Art for children and the Adults that love them. (It's art for adults too, BTW!) Thank you for being here today, Heather |
