Some quiet is only available overhead. Reaching Quiet is painted from beneath a stand of birch, looking straight up into the hush that gathers there on a summer afternoon, when the light has already been filtered twice before it reaches anyone standing below.
The trunks rise in pale bands, narrowing as they climb, and the canopy is worked in quick green touches flecked with yellow, thick enough to feel like weather against a deep blue. Branch repeats branch at every scale, and the eye follows without effort — an ease that belongs to the trees and passes to whoever stands beneath them, which is why it is difficult to look up for long without slowing down.
NeuroArts takes an interest in exactly that ease: how readily we take in the repeating shapes of growing things, and how quickly the body settles when looking costs nothing. Looking up is its own form of stillness — the shortest break in any working day, and one of the few that returns more attention than it takes — all of it going on quietly overhead, whether or not anyone stops to notice.
Details
Acrylic painting on canvas
Framed
Ready to hang
Dimensions in inches: 24 wide x 36 high
Framed dimensions in inches: 25 wide x 37 high
Ships with tracking number via courier.
Some quiet is only available overhead. Reaching Quiet is painted from beneath a stand of birch, looking straight up into the hush that gathers there on a summer afternoon, when the light has already been filtered twice before it reaches anyone standing below.
The trunks rise in pale bands, narrowing as they climb, and the canopy is worked in quick green touches flecked with yellow, thick enough to feel like weather against a deep blue. Branch repeats branch at every scale, and the eye follows without effort — an ease that belongs to the trees and passes to whoever stands beneath them, which is why it is difficult to look up for long without slowing down.
NeuroArts takes an interest in exactly that ease: how readily we take in the repeating shapes of growing things, and how quickly the body settles when looking costs nothing. Looking up is its own form of stillness — the shortest break in any working day, and one of the few that returns more attention than it takes — all of it going on quietly overhead, whether or not anyone stops to notice.
Details
Acrylic painting on canvas
Framed
Ready to hang
Dimensions in inches: 24 wide x 36 high
Framed dimensions in inches: 25 wide x 37 high
Ships with tracking number via courier.
