Painted Thoughts Love
by Jean Pacheco Ravinski
Title
Painted Thoughts Love
Artist
Jean Pacheco Ravinski
Medium
Painting - Painting With Pixels
Description
LOVE
‘Bodhisattva’
I had spent the day before at the ICA studying the works of Jim Hodges. On this day I had just gone through the Jamie Wyeth exhibit at the MFA and I had been wandering around in the MFA for hours looking at all my old ‘friends’ and meeting all my new ‘friends’. I was tired. It was 4pm, tea time, nap time. I was cruising around waiting for something to speak to me. Some place to set up, relax and get into a drawing. Around and around the galleries then into a dark gallery with a tall window surrounded with vines and leaves overlooking the inner courtyard.
And it hit me. The window, the statue, so peaceful and relaxing. I got out the iPad and started drawing the window and statue of what I thought was Buddha.
And I started thinking about Kevin’s next word, ‘love’. And in my thoughts I was going to paint a bear because I had seen wild bears lately and I was thinking of the love of a mother towards her child and how a protective mother can have a superhuman strength to save her child. Like some stories you hear about a mother who picks up a car to save her child or a mother who fights a bear to save her child or a mother who jumps from a burning building holding her child. Self sacrifice I suppose, a strong symbol of love.
I finished my drawing THEN I went behind the statue and read the information card:
Seated Bodhisattva
Chinese
Eastern Wei dynasty, about A.D. 530
Carved limestone
Oh. Not Buddha. It’s a bodhisattva which Wikipedia describes as a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others.
Now I’m untangling a thread that had been embroidered in my inner thoughts all along and I didn’t even know it, subconscious thoughts. I’m thinking, ‘this bodhisattva is like a hero’. I thought about how a hero gives up their life for another. I thought about one of Kevin’s photographs at the Newseum in Washington DC that depicts fire fighters working to save others. And then I thought about one of the first digital paintings I posted on Facebook and it’s a painting of Kevin and his dog Mojo!
And finally I noticed that our bodhisattva has a hand broken off. And what this represents to me is that this being needs us as his helping hand. Compassionate love.
Love means so much to so many of us. Around and around in so many, many ways.
Painted thoughts, August 23, 2014
Digital painting
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August 26th, 2014
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