Cured
24 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas
THE MEANING BEHIND THE PAINTING
“As humans we often believe something has a beginning and an end. That grief itself should have an end.
Grieving is an action and it is important to sit in those emotions but it is also a period of time that we come out of. However, grief, the love we have for an individual who has died, is something that becomes a part of our being. We grow around our grief, and to express that grief is something special. It is not something that can or is meant to be ‘cured’.”
“In the beginning of my grieving, when the heaviness felt all consuming and it was hard to imagine feeling anything but sadness, I would often ask myself, ‘will I always feel this way?’ And, the most comforting thing to hear was that only time can heal this pain. Time continues to move when it felt as though I could not.
Time was comforting. Time was sometimes the only thing I could trust. If I cried, if I sat in the heaviness, if I gave myself permission to feel everything - time would carry me through to the other side. And with time, things did become easier. ”
