Thus It Was

 Gamblin Artist's Oils blends all their leftover paint together into a conglomeration of colors they call "Torrit Gray." They offer a challenge to artists to paint only in that gray, black and white. I gave it a shot this week. This is an illustration of a poem by Dag Hammarskjöld's poem, "Thus It Was."

If I get up the guts to enter the contest, and if I were to win, it would be a substantial amount of art material. This is 8 x 10 on Ampersand gesso board. 



Thus It Was 

I am being driven forward
Into an unknown land.
The pass grows steeper,
The air colder and sharper.
A wind from my unknown goal
Stirs the strings
Of expectation.

Still the question:
Shall I ever get there?
There where life resounds,
A clear pure note
In the silence.