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Title
A Gift Of True Sight
Artist
Debra Lynch
Medium
Photograph - Digital Painting
Description
Wow this part of uploading art has become very interesting as well as challenging. At first I was dismayed and so afraid to try and upload on my own due to the failure of sight. But yesterday Saturday, September 21 I had a revelation which is why I decided to upload this work today.
I had been out to pick up eye drops and such and when arriving back home, and my husband parked the car and I started to step out, what remaining sight I had suddenly went completely black. I had one foot out the car door and one foot in. I froze in place and at first started panicking. My Husband is old school and is always willing to let me stumble first so that I can always try on my own to get past something. So I didn't say a word as he walked to unlock the door. I listened to his almost silent footsteps and said All i have to do is follow the sounds. I slowly got out of the car and made my way around the car by sliding my hand along the side. But to my surprise since I wasn't as familiar with this newer car, I found I couldn't follow the lines of it and began to stumble and fall. Panic set in I stopped in my tracks. I knew this driveway for over 20 years but at this point my mind wouldn't quieten down and allow me to move forward.
So as with other times I snapped to and ordered myself to calm down and think. I again tried to find my way by sliding my hand along the car. But I kept stumbling. Not wanting to ask for help but wanting to get into the house where I could find furniture I was familiar with so I could move on my own, I tried to remain calm and called out to my husband, "David, are you still there?" He said yes he was and asked what was wrong. I tried to stay calm and just tell him I can't see, everything went black and I got the words out but my voice was quivering with fear and he immediately became more alert.
ITs funny at how quickly our minds and body switch to other avenues of doing things when we lose the ability to do it in the accustomed manner.
I said "David, please give me your hand and he was immediately beside me and I sensed his hand in the air and reached out to take it. . He slowly maneuvered me to the porch and after several failed attempts to get me up the step to the porch, we made it.
By this time my heart was pounding and all I could think was 'What now?"
After getting inside he let go of my hand and I began to feel my way across the kitchen and through the dining room. By the time I made it to the dining room I realized that this didn't mean it was permanent and all I had to do was keep the faith.David suggested I just go back and lye down for awhile with the curtains closed. Which did and fell asleep so that when I woke to my relief the darkness wa gone and although everything remained blurry out of sorts I could at least see the shapes and colors again. At the moment I am still in the stage of blurry scene's playing across my vision and to see I have to keep one eye completely closed and squint the other eye. I have been doing art this way of late which is why I haven't submitted but a few pieces.
This piece is from what i will call the before my gift of true sight. So it is a blessing and a pain in the neck at the same time but a gift nonetheless. I use to tell my children the true gifts in life are our ability to see adversity as opportunities to learn and grow. Well to say my words have come back to test me is a humbling thing.
So dear viewer and friends who visit these works, I have not crumbled nor stopped trying. And if the light goes out in my vision then I simply must allow the inner light to be my guide.
Now when I do art I have to be close to the canvas or drawing pad and I lean into the computer which limits my time on it but I know that if I stumble, if I fall, I can get up and try again and in those rare moments when I can't make it on my own I have lucked out in the friends I have around me so that all I have to do is pick up the phone and call. Jasna, CIa, Laurel, Hartmut, Larry, Lief, Michelle, Karen, Viva, Maria and several more very dear and cherished friends have graced my life and brought the joy and light of friendship into my life. Thank you dear Light keeper's. So this is my revelation dear people. Although one light goes out, and we stumble and fall, the light keeper's in the world will be there to keep the joy of your life in tact. Just having these individuals in my life has been some of the greatest gifts I cold ever ask for. So as I stumble to type this without too many mistakes, I thank all of you who have touched my life in one way or another even for the disagreements which also brought lessons the spirit needs to survive in life and come out of things a better person. I have often said art begins in the spirit of the artist before it ever takes form on canvas or which ever medium we use. So that I will from here on out be using this method to create my art and allow my inner spirit to be the artist for me.
I am so happy to say I have completed several works of late that I will be posting soon but with much sorter descriptions as I know now I have to limit this typing since it is stressful trying to do it without mistakes. :-) I frown horribly when I make mistakes, not a pretty site so I prefer to go easy on my spirit in that way.
This abstract was created with one of my paintings of a bird and digital art. The spinning lights and colors of the world coming together to create for us a whole picture using the gift of true sight to lead us.
As always I wish you many wonderful blessings of love, friendship, family and the gift of true sight. Debra
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September 22nd, 2019
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Burlington, NJ - United States
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured in the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. 9/28/19
NIcholasville, KY - United States
Congratulations, your work is featured on the homepage of "Created by Southern Artists
Brooklyn, NY - United States
Like this piece but it is your description that is the true blessing of this post. It is moving and inspiring. You are true model for us all and I am so proud to be a friend, even if only a virtual one.
Sydney , NS - Australia
Dear Debra, I've missed your recent absence,and now THIS miraculous painting ! And your story, and your trust in good outcomes over your vision problems........all, are so beautiful.........so colourful,joyous....Kudos dear Debra for rising so high, seeing beauty from within your soul, and thank you for sharing this......It is absolutely gorgeous !!! I am sympathtic to your challenges b/c mine are similar.....but YOU are the achiever above adversity....all honour to you, compliments, prayers, too........f.v..........VIVA
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