A lot of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this inside a blog because it is just so very odd this way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and only just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I needed an image that we wanted to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The look was of an mountain, even as are coming down from your top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. And so i developed a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a few hours into it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me at night to the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames this also one inch particular we had just acquired found mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies ah. About the botton with the frame would have been a brass label. It had, up to now framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Jessica Henry I had created done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to new life, off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in life, right onto your pathway through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been slightly element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was about the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not come to my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We have little idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back from the painting and you will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!