Langouste

36" x 36" / acrylic on canvas / 2013 / sold

Scavenging our emotional landscape 
    for insights and aspects we’ve let

        settle into obscurity within
            our hearts for too
                long

Be willing to shed the shell that no longer walks with the definition that you wear
A reminder of past characteristics that have become redundant

Be willing to grow the new shell with the required number of layers
In growing your shell, heed your own instincts and inner wisdom.  
The opinions of the outer world matter little in this affair.
Obscure thoughts hidden inside the depths from time long ago
    rising

Regenerate and recreate new legs and new claws.
Be willing to let go of old ideas
                and old gripping convictions 
   
Leave a shell of magnificence and exquisite beauty where you have once passed
            through

Scavenge the Deep
the unknown realms, the sea of the subconscious mind
Delve into the dark ink colored emotions….

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