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Girl with Red Book painting in an environment, originally uploaded by {studiobeerhorst}-bbmarie.

This little painting was in the Wonder Wagon during Art Prize. I have only recently brought it into the house and found a nice place for it by the front door in our foyer. The little shelf underneath is laid out with a few objects of beauty and curiosity that provide some more context to relate back to the painting. The frame has been made out of scrape wood with the top cut to a peak which refers to either a house or an alter. The reading of a book, a young girl lost in the pages of a story, the suspension of time that happens while reading, study and meditation as a narrow passage back into God, these possibilities are forever fascinating to me. The background is a view from the upper window of the carriage house studio and shows our driveway emptying out into busy Fuller Street and our neighbors houses. This little painting is a frozen moment, a moth trapped in amber, a place to pause and reflect and allow life to drop further into places of depth, meaning and beauty.