All the Colors I Had

Description

Acrylic on Foam Tablet, 15″ x 11″

This piece began as an experiment. Jaye loves rainbows for what they represent, that everything belongs, every color has its place, nothing is excluded, but when she sat down to paint one, she didn’t have every color in front of her. So she worked with what she had, watching the way one color leans into the next, yellow softening down toward orange, orange warming into brownish red, each shade arriving by following what came before it, until somehow, without all the colors a rainbow is supposed to have, it still arrived at violet. It’s about letting whatever you have transform into something else, one color into the next, until something complete emerges. Jaye made this with what was in front of her, and it became exactly what it needed to be.

The Contemplation: Sit with the piece and notice where one part of you flows into the next, even the parts that feel incomplete. Ask what might be made whole simply by letting what you have keep moving.