The Wind is Everything

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Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.36x18"The Wind is Everything is my visual interpretation of a poem - see at the end of this description. This a ssemblage contains 29 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were painted on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish. Woman Walking with Dogs by Linda Goulais the grey morn of another day in a warmly lit tea room on a rough English coast. Outside in the bleak, past the tea cups and the smeared glass, a woman is walking along the edge under a dark sky grey dogs all around her. The wind is storming up the bluffs from the sea, a low whelping howl, and the wind is everything. She leans into it says a prayer perhaps. Her hair is wild tentacled, salt-flaked, alive. She is, in the sea-smudged light, both improbable and astonishing. The dogs, all legs and flattened fur circle close, move off circle close again protecting her, or at least re-affirming each other — the huddled mass in the unforgiving wind drifting slowly down the bluff to the point. Show more