Made It Home Again

by Aberjhani

Title

Made It Home Again

Artist

Aberjhani

Medium

Painting - Silk-featherbrush Artstyle Mixed Media Painting

Description

“But this is another kind of traveling.
This is another kind of growing up.”
--from the poem COMING HOME (published in ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love)

When the potential severity of COVID-19 pandemic started becoming more apparent this time last year (February 2020), one of the biggest concerns for people already traveling or living outside their homeland was whether they would make it home to see loved ones at least one more time. Some were on cruise ships which were not always invited to dock in a given harbor while others may only have been a state or a city away.

As death tolls rose around the world and travel bans went into effect, going home took on layered practical and spiritual meanings. In either case, it implied relief from a certain kind of mental anguish upon arriving at a physical locale associated with feelings of safety, or reaching a state of inner peace resistant to panic. The artwork titled “Made It Home Again” is a celebration of those who made it in either a physical or a psychic sense. Seen within the image are lines of dark red, blue, and green indicating life-and-death struggles still in progress. At the same time, other glowing figures emerge out of the shadowy uncertainty and move towards an experience of illuminated resolve. Polychromatic flare of pink, gold, yellow, green, blue, and blended hues float toward large gateway-like blossoms of white light and shimmering green. The horror which was now slowly fades in the distance.

500K SERIES BACKGROUND

There are now 2 vaccines approved to prevent the spread of COVID-19 cases in the United States, where deaths from the microscopic assassin hit the horrendous figure of 500,000 on February 21, 2021. We knew the numbers were going to get that high but being aware of something so regretful does not make accepting it any easier. The positive flip side is that millions have now received vaccines and reduced chances of overwhelming surges of the disease in the future. Plus, a third vaccine is being considered for FDA approval. That is seriously important in America where people from coast-to-coast love beaches and find it difficult to avoid crowding them even when the danger of doing so has been made clear.

This series extends the acknowledgements of COVID-19 victims begun last year with “Sunrise in the Valley of Compassion” and “Flotilla of Candles” when we hit the dreaded 200,000 mark. It also pays tribute to the diverse works who continue to push forward on the front lines to defeat the coronavirus catastrophe.
I am mindful of the fact that if the number in this title referenced total deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, it would be closer to 2.5 million. The grief over those losses is no less than that for any others. However, the United States has long had the sad distinction of leading the world community in pandemic fatalities and is now revamping strategies and increasing resources to end the insufferable horror. A natural passion for love and life makes it difficult for some to exercise the kind of self-discipline necessary to finally win this battle, but we’re getting there.

Aberjhani
https://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info/
Creator of Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle
Survivor of COVID-19 Red Zone & Orange Zone
Co-Author Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Author of Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind

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February 21st, 2021

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