‘Jungle Fervour’ – Day 349-365

‘Jungle Fervour’ – Day 349-365

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You cannot express what’s in the jungle of your heart, if you’re afraid of things getting a little wild.⁠
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This is the view into the corner of our garden – but more what that view makes me feel than what it looks like, leaf for leaf. I painted this painting with one brush only – a long, thin floopy one – to help me tap into feeling rather than detail.⁠
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Also I left out the wall – because who needs more walls in life?!⁠
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Inspiration: artist’s own

‘Pain Steaking’ – Day 241/365

‘Pain Steaking’ – Day 241/365

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I painted today’s miniature with a renewed return of the unbearable ache under my scapula. My sacrifice of daily repetition.⁠
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To say I eeked this one out is an understatement. It took me thrice as long because of all the distractions I navigated towards. The whole thing was f&^%$ painstaking.⁠
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As I painted alongside this pain, all I felt burning in my shoulder were the woods, the woods, the endangered wild woods.⁠
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And all I hear was hungry capitalism burning them down for a beef industry that feeds the world’s mass meat-eaters with distraction while they profit from destruction. ⁠
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While the sacrifice of my daily repetition is only my chosen burden to bear and wholly worthwhile, I believe, in the long run – the daily repetition of eating meat and turning a blind eye on your part in feeding the monster that burns our forest is not a sacrifice our planet chose or can recover from.⁠
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And that’s the P A I N – S T E A K I N G reality of our burning, burning, wild woods.⁠
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Please choose reduction, choose less mass-farmed animal agriculture. Choose Amazonia.⁠
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Inspiration: common license

‘Jungle of Love’ – Day 239/365

‘Jungle of Love’ – Day 239/365

There can be water in a rainforest, and yet it can burn.⁠
And there can be love after a breakup, but make your stomach churn.⁠

Just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean it’s good.⁠
Just because it happens doesn’t mean it should.⁠
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A little poem for mothers – earth ones and birth ones.⁠

(artist retains all rights to print reproductions of this painting)
Inspiration: common licence


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Isn’t it crazy?⁠

That there can be water in a rainforest, and yet it can burn.⁠
And there can be love after a breakup, but make your stomach churn.⁠

Just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean it’s good.⁠
Just because it happens doesn’t mean it should.⁠
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A little poem for mothers – earth ones and birth ones.⁠

‘Abundance’ – Day 169/365 – Gifted

‘Abundance’ – Day 169/365 – Gifted

This painting is a gift in exchange for an Afrika Burn Ticket

Inspiration image: a composition of the receiver’s favourite images from Cameroon


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A tiny painting of a place, or rather many parts of a place, that came together in one tiny painting.⠀
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For you @jalperstein, your Cameroon. ⠀
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I hope this will help you keep all the lush greenery and abundance of a place you love near, always.⠀
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And thank you for being so giving🙏 My burn experience would not have been the same without our wonderful sequence of events. I love that it found its way to me from such verdant lands. ⠀
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