Hope Flows Down

This third painting from the original 4 pours takes a bird's eye view. Hope comes slowly, flowing down from a fountainhead that is outside and far from our own abilities and strength. It took some time to see it but finally the system of waterfalls emerged. The first chop is my name but the one below it is “yuxian endian” translatable as “threshold grace.” This happens to be the name of my studio but seemed to fit the waterfall motif in this work— the slow mediation of hope and grace from the tops of the mountains to the valley floor.