The Moment Before We Wake Up

acrylics on canvas
imitation gold leaf
100 x 120 cm
2021

available // 550 €

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This painting has multiple thin gold details; they can best be seen in the close up shots. The colours of the photos are adjusted to be as true to real life as possible; however, blue shades often differ a bit in different displays. The blue in the painting is an intensive and still soft cerulean blue, a bit on the warmer side.

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in a moment
everything will change.

balanced between dreams and wakefulness
I’m not lost any longer;
all the strands of this life,
every winding road I’ve stumbled along
joining together into a wide bright stream,
running towards
a light

I can sense the morning
through my eyelids;
I recognise the sun
even if I don’t see it yet.

here on this threshold
I am safe

here I shake off my shadows,
shake off my fears.

you have to be seen
to really see

and this light
gently picks me up,
holds me close,

sees through me
to my core.

// kv

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The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:5