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FOTO FRIDAY.....H HANDY COVE 
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Well, I still haven't got my new computer set up so I can download my photos from my camera, but here's a painting I did several years ago, called "Handy Cove"......It's Acrylics on 12 by 12 " canvas.......A handy cove is a safe anchorage in a sudden storm.......
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Great painting!! I love it!! Very artistic...
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This is a very interesting painting! I like it...
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Very unusual"H" photo, brilliant painting.  
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Great painting!! I love it!! Very artistic... Along this coast, there are many bays that once held Native villages. Sometimes there are remnants left...An old totem pole, fallen and rotting...or a house foundation or the remains of fishing weirs embedded in the beach......And when night falls, we sit around the fire and conjure up the ancestors and they come bustling in and start working.....cleaning the fish, building canoes and houses and poles.....We hear the children's voices calling on the wind and the wafts of Cedar smoke from our fire mingles with the Cedar smoke of days gone by......... And then there is Emily Carr.....My heroine growing up, who painted those disappearing villages and wrote about it so eloquently......This painting is somewhat of an homage to Emily.......
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This is a very interesting painting! I like it...
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Very unusual"H" photo, brilliant painting.
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HEAVEN KNOWS WE ALL NEED SAFE PLACES TO ANCHOR JUST NOW. WHAT AN INTERESTING PAINTING! And a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU.
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symbolism is interesting. Abracadabra 
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Very interesting painting..... with various interpretations possible depending on a person's perspective on life and spirituality. You really are quite talented. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Very interesting painting..... with various interpretations possible depending on a person's perspective on life and spirituality. You really are quite talented. She said that she was at a low-point in her life, she couldn't even go to work and someone brought her a parcel with her name on it and inside was a painting of the HAND OF GOD holding her life in His hand.....reassuring her ....etc....etc.....with all the Christian cliches about God having written on her heart etc.........I had to get legal to get it back......The woman clearly had issues.....She was convinced my painting was a gift from God..........  ... She didn't want to hear my story.. The intent of the artist was inconsequential in her eyes......I told her I was Atheist and she told me that makes no difference to God......He can work through anyone........etc....
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Just before Covid, a new gallery opened....It was more crafts than art....I felt kind of iffy about it......I talked to the woman who ran it and she suggested I bring a painting in and we could talk about it......I brought this one.....mostly because it's small and sturdy.......someone else was there in her stead that day and I explained my errand....He said to put the name of the owner on the parcel and she would get back to me.......She didn't, and when I phoned, I got this weird run-around......She had taken my painting home and kept forgetting to bring it with her to work....she had a handicapped son and she was in the process of moving.....etc....on and on for weeks......When I finally got her in the gallery, she insisted that the painting belonged to her and I had given it to her.....it had her name on it.....And then she started telling me that the painting was a message from God, to her.... She said that she was at a low-point in her life, she couldn't even go to work and someone brought her a parcel with her name on it and inside was a painting of the HAND OF GOD holding her life in His hand.....reassuring her ....etc....etc.....with all the Christian cliches about God having written on her heart etc.........I had to get legal to get it back......The woman clearly had issues.....She was convinced my painting was a gift from God.......... ...She didn't want to hear my story.. The intent of the artist was inconsequential in her eyes......I told her I was Atheist and she told me that makes no difference to God......He can work through anyone........etc.... It's interesting that what the artist's intent and what viewers see are often not the same thing at all, but one should appreciate the artist's idea that brought about the painting. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Oh my goodness! You certainly have met more than your share of kooky Christians, haven't you?! While her interpretation of what she sees is valid to her, her dishonesty is unconscionable and does not even correlate to what she says she believes!!! But as the old song goes, "One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl!" It's interesting that what the artist's intent and what viewers see are often not the same thing at all, but one should appreciate the artist's idea that brought about the painting. I did a large painting over 30 years ago....all natural pigments, of a baby laying in the curve of a 1/4 moon.....it also had some shadowy, vaguely First Nations imagery. It was sold to a Psychologist who had a busy practice, with several councilors on staff. Most of the clients were covered by their work-place insurance.....The doctor put the painting in the clinic's waiting room. Over the years, she told me that many of her clients felt really soothed and reassured by the painting, that it was very spiritual for them......When she retired, she brought the painting back to me and I traded it for several month's rent....... It's rare to get useful feedback on art.....most people feel shy about saying anything substantial, mostly that they like it or don't....I have wept standing in front of paintings.......and not been able to articulate whether I was weeping with joy or sadness.......but both simultaneously. .I saw a painting by a woman in her twenties a couple of days ago, that really moved me, but unfortunately, I wa in a hurry and couldn't linger to appreciate the unique blend of emotion.......
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