Original painting by Melanie Weidner
Created in 2002 — 15 x 22 inches
Watercolor , colored pencil, ink, collage, hollow shape
(the black part of the inner spiral is actually a carved hole in the paper)
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This image is also available in 11x14 Standard Art Prints and 18x24 Giclée Art Prints.
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Art text: and somehow You make blessing out of these wounds, such joy, and this mystery.
Statement:
This prayer of amazed gratitude and necessary trust came to me as a student on arts scholarship at Pendle Hill Quaker Contemplative & Study Center. I’d just left an entire life behind, healing into the reality of grace I felt and needed at the threshold of a new beginning. You Make Blessing gave me strength then, as it still does now. As another “scrap painting,” made with prior marks on the page, I didn’t see until later the dancing woman figure with a scarf that some people recognized at the top of the wound shape.
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