"Magic Forest," 12 x 12 acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
The world, creation, humanity, burdened down with the "reality" of technology, science, cultures and "logic" spirals out of control with war, inhumanity, pandemics, with so-called "sapiens" living unintelligently, committing eco-suicide by killing the planet.
Most seem to have forgotten, or lost, or squandered or negated another reality--that of imagination, of the spirit, of magic.
Yet there are still places of magic, of the super-natural, of health and happiness in the crevices of our minds that we never touch or have drugged with everyday existence. You find them in all the arts, in nature itself, if you look, if you imagine.
We desperately need magic more than ever, to rescue us from our depressing "reality" that is not working intelligently for us.
Amid this latest carnage, I began thinking of physical places that are magic to me, where I am closest to creation and the creator. Only then does creativity take place, from close contact, in my imagination.
A few of those are deep forests, in fact, or in fiction, like Tolkien's Mirkwood, or Robin Hood's Sherwood, or the Pacific Northwest's rainforests, or ...
Thus this painting.
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