Series
Postpartum

Fruhling (Spring)

Strauss: Four Last Songs
48" x 60"
Oil on Canvas
PRIVATE COLLECTION
In shadowy crypts I dreamt long of your trees and blue skies, of your fragrance and birdsong.
Now you appearing in all your finery,
drenched in light like a miracle before me.
You recognize me, you entice me tenderly.
All my limbs tremble at your blessed presence!
– Hermann Hesse
“Frühling” arrives like breath after holding—yellow and green rising through the canvas as if the world remembers itself. Postpartum weariness trembles in place, then opens. Light touches everything; the body is met with tenderness; colour speaks miracle.

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With Permission:  2013 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Recorded live in Roy Thompson Hall, December 4 & 6, 2008  www.tso.ca