For the memories.....

Maybe it's age that highlights, or it's just a natural evolving aspect of being, that which separates us from all other creatures on this planet. In various ways we all experience moments and transport them. We also make effort to retain, present, describe and exchange - "This is what it was like when...", "I liked this...", "I remember...", "I needed... this..."

Creativity, whether consciously intended...

....Sharing

Whatever medium we choose serves, in addition, as some symbolic reference

Ideas being connections

Thoughts or words, we speak, repeat, sing, or write

Objects crafted offer expressions.....

Involve human strokes and (maybe) hope in foreword (forward) understanding or appreciation.

Capturing, in some way, that originality, individualism and desire.

Description defining us essentially.

"Cheers!"

in oils
16 x 20 inches

While painting this I considered Renoir's "Luncheon of the boating party" asking myself, what point is being made, what questions, statements, expressions and how many answers apply? Where could this scene be, what clues describe the location, does anything corroborate, what did the artist know, what were his influences, is anything absent?

In my painting I've included my four children (I have one daughter and three sons), their father and a self portrait. I thought about their futures, their past, what will change and what may last.