{"id":2675,"date":"2013-05-09T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:36:54","slug":"what-a-painting-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"What a Painting Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

My remarkable friend Naomi in Kyoto, has generously featured a collage of mine on her website’s\u00a0Chasing Writing in Art<\/em>\u00a0link.\u00a0<\/em>It’s humbling to be there with so many amazing artists.<\/p>\n

Here’s my collage and a few words. Please check out Naomi’s site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Return<\/a>
Return from Journey
Collage
1998
24 x 36 inches \/ approx. 61 x 91 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I painted this piece at my home in Connecticut about two years after returning from living and working in a war zone. From\u00a0June 1992- June 1996, I was\u00a0<\/i>with the United Nations Peacekeeping Operation in Former Yugoslavia and UNICEF in Croatia and Bosnia. During that time, I met and married my husband and Molly was born.
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I remember setting up my paints in front of the fireplace, imagining I’d capture a peaceful image.\u00a0Instead, what I see now in this image, is torment. I recall the\u00a0turmoil and demons we were living with, even as the trappings of our life seemed ideal. It was a struggle for us – especially my husband – to switch gears to a normal life away from war. The supposed tranquility \u00a0of a chair in front\u00a0of a fireplace \u2013 this scene that should be cozy, looks like the center of a storm.<\/i><\/p>\n

Indeed, it was.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I still live in this house and love sitting by the fire. Twenty years on since the Balkan wars ended, almost ten since the death of my husband and these days, ghosts have mostly settled and my life is serene. I write more than paint. But I should attempt this interior again to see what would<\/em>\u00a0reveal itself. \u00a0<\/em>I imagine it would be an image of warmth and peace \u2013 but<\/em>\u00a0who knows? The subconscious reveals itself almost in spite of us.<\/em>
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My remarkable friend Naomi in Kyoto, has generously featured a collage of mine on her website’s\u00a0Chasing Writing in Art\u00a0link.\u00a0It’s humbling to be there with so many amazing artists. Here’s my collage and a few words. Please check out Naomi’s site here. I painted this piece at my home in Connecticut about two years after returning … Continue reading What a Painting Reveals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,20,29,21,5,25,6,19,23,18,7],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bosnian-war","tag-grief","tag-healing","tag-kyoto","tag-memoir","tag-motherhood","tag-suicide","tag-time","tag-united-nations","tag-war","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-H9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}