The Long Journey from Social Distance to Private Joy
by Aberjhani
Title
The Long Journey from Social Distance to Private Joy
Artist
Aberjhani
Medium
Mixed Media - Silk-featherbrush Fine Art Painting
Description
“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved
blinded your arms to lines of propriety––
Women and Men, Christians and Jews,
Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown…”
--From the poem “Once Was a Singer for God” published in The River of Winged Dreams
We’ve all heard stories about people dying alone either in hospitals or at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and some of us have lost loved ones under such circumstances. That reality influenced a lot of people’s decision (not judging whether right or wrong, just stating observations) to take their chances traveling over the holidays. Living in fear of getting COVID-19 and possibly dying alone, or taking the risk of traveling to embrace loved ones despite the possibility of spreading the disease, is not the kind of choice anyone should have to make. The coronavirus, however, has hammered us with all kinds of unforeseen dilemmas.
Prolonged deprivation of personal preferences in the form of sustained social distance remains one of the biggest challenges in the war against the invisible beast. The great news is that despite whatever our human weaknesses or miscalculations may be, even as the disease continues to take lives, every week we get closer to defeating it. This abstract Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle canvas, “The Long Journey from Social Distance to Private Joy,” is a celebration of gains made thus far and a look forward to reunions which many hopefully will be able to enjoy by the end of 2021. It depicts one cluster of figures clinging to the side of a boat as it moves toward a crowded pier while lights and hopes and dreams shine brightly on the distant night-time horizon.
Aberjhani
https://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info/
Creator of Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle
Co-Author Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Author of Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind
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January 17th, 2021
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Comments (8)
VIVA Anderson
Aberjhani, always so wonderful that you especially celebrate the 'inner glory' and remind us of eternal HOPE, here again, so beautifully. Thank You !, regards, kudos, f.v...........VIVA
Vadim Levin
Excellent colorful abstract about unfortunate new norm in our modern world. We must and will win this disaster. It will be tomorrow! New, beautiful tomorrow.
Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Greatly appreciate your response to "The Long Journey from Social Distance to Private Joy" Tejsweena. I particularly like your idea of "merging the eyes on face to the the eye of inner-glory." Thank you.
Tejsweena Krishan
I see an open eye of soul to be spiritual in any way that is merging the eyes on face to the the eye of inner-glory, maybe that is why eyes does called the window to soul, like a way connecting the excellence with the brilliance to bloom the hopes grow green anywhere possible even to the arid region to heal and plant with just green! This is a very phenomenal creation speaking self-awareness by being connective with the senses of rights! Lovely my friend! :)
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