Way too many Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this within a blog which is simply so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and just just removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside inside the studio. A month ago, I had created a picture i planned to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The picture was of a mountain, even as we are decreasing in the top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. Therefore i designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours involved with it on the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me at night to the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames this also one in particular we had just acquired found mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies ah. About the botton with the frame was a brass label. It had, as yet framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Jessica Henry I had carried out the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, on the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in your life, your way through the shadows and mountain highs. That has been somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame we happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t visit my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have little idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back with the painting and will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!