Series
Postpartum

September

Strauss: Four Last Songs
48" x 60"
Oil on Canvas
PRIVATE COLLECTION
The garden is in mourning.
Cool rain seeps into the flowers.
Summertime shudders, quietly awaiting his end.
Golden leaf after leaf falls from the tall acacia tree. Summer smiles, astonished and feeble,
at his dying dream of a garden.
For just a while he tarries beside the roses,
yearning for repose.
Slowly he closes his weary eyes.
– Hermann Hesse
Summer loosens its grip. Red fields dim under a gathering blue; gold breaks like tired light across the surface. “September” breathes the ache of endings—postpartum fatigue, the body’s slow surrender into rest. What withers also releases; what falls makes room. The painting lingers at the threshold where grief becomes gentleness.

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