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| Blue Ridge, 2012, oil and wax on canvas, 38 x 34 in |
"Know then that art is: a path toward freedom. We have all been born in chains. A few forget their chains: they have them silver-plated or gilded. But we want to rend them; not through ugly brute force; our desire is to grow out of them."
- R. M. Rilke
Is that not the path of the yogi?
My latest exhibition opens this week at the Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket. I am writing statements and putting the last few wires on this Summer's crop of paintings. Two things I have done every day for the last few months here in my Summer residency on the Island: a long yoga practice and painted in my studio. More and more the two practices merge - at least in the intention behind them: freedom.
(More of my work can be viewed at www.michael-rich.com.)
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