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MOON'S WINDOW (2007)
Acrylic on Panel - 7" X 5"

This window was suggested by shapes at the Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire England. (Nothing to do with the painting, but Whitby is where Count Dracula landed when he arrived in England...) 1/3

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The warm glow of the morning sun hits the top of the rough stone facade of abbey ruins. Delicate wildflowers of pink and blue grow on the step. A view through a thin pointed arch exposes a sequence of similar arches with the final arch broken and incomplete as it frames a full moon against the pale blue morning sky. A pair of seagulls glide in opposite directions.
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The architecture at Whitby Abbey has inspired many paintings in the Portals subset of my personal work. 2/3
Photo of Whitby Abbey by Lewek-rafek (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Whitby Abby shot from afar with a rippling lake to the right. The front facade falls completely in shadow while the side is in sunlight. There are three levels of arches on the side. The bottom level are pointed, the middle rounded, and the top smaller rounded windows. The front has an additional level coming to a peak but the roof is missing. Beside it are the top of two towers. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitby_Abbey_from_afar.jpg
Photo of Whitby Abbey by Lewek-rafek (CC BY-SA 4.0) - A photographic view through a series of three pointed arches. White light coming in bathes the stonework to the right. We see don’t see the base of the pillars forming the arches, just the upper portion. The first window through shows a broken upper level at its peak and the pale sky beyond. The view through the last arch is obscured by stonework. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitby_Abbey_arches.jpg
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These paintings visualize what it takes to overcome obstacles in the search for truth via intuitive experience. 3/3

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Detail from MOON’S WINDOW featuring a worm’s eye view of a sequence of arches in a ruined abbey. The lower wall is cooler in tone as the stone is washed in pink to purple tones. Wildflowers grow in the immediate foreground as the lip of stone at the top of the steps leads up to the succeeding arches.
Close detail from MOON’S WINDOW featuring the cool tones of the lower part of the wall and a view through successive arches to the sky beyond. The final arch is broken, taller on the left which serves to direct the eye to the moon, a pure white orb hanging just beneath the point of the last complete arch. A pair of birds with wings extended soar in opposite directions, providing implied motion across the opening.

MOON’S WINDOW

This window was suggested by shapes at the Whitby Abbey, Lincolnshire England. (Nothing to do with the painting, but Whitby is where Count Dracula landed when he arrived in England……)
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