Escape Into Life, online arts journal, pushes the boundaries of visual art and
literature, blending the two together until they become one poem – a work of Visual Poetry.
It’s that moment when you pull yourself up one last time and with one last breath, let go. It’s the moment before the free fall into possibility, letting the old dissolve and fall away. It’s the rush of new, brilliant beginnings and the grief of saying goodbye to the familiar and once loved.
Handmade oil paint, resin, and locally sourced beeswax on stretched canvas.
Third in the Hanging On series, a series of paintings of figures holding on to the edge of the canvas, trying to hold on to something already gone, or unable to let go of the past.