The Ancient Wound
The Ancient Wound
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Each high quality print (giclee) is on stretched canvas with your choice of depths of either .75 or 1.5 inches. The price includes an affixed hanger so it can be hung directly on the wall. If you wish to frame the print, I recommend ordering the .75 inch depth.
As each print is a special order, please allow two to three weeks for delivery.
Original Painting: 30 x 40 x 1 1/4 in. Price: $2100..
To purchase and arrange delivery of this painting, please email me at contact@jennifermayol.com.
When I tune into her
I don’t hear any words.
All I feel is a
profound sitting in silence.
And the weight of being here.
During the time I was making a small prayer flag from a print of my painting, A Love Letter of Liberation, my partner, Michael, told me about a young Pakistani woman in the news who had met a devastating end, meted out by her own family. All she had done was glance twice at a man going by on a motorcycle. This was so egregious to her mother that she poured acid on her. Her family left her there in their home for two or three days, while she suffered. She tried to kill herself. They wouldn't let her. She finally died. My prayer flag and The Ancient Wound are dedicated to her, and all the people who have been burned with acid, apparently a somewhat common practice in some countries.
The eye in the painting feels like the ancient eye of the whale that’s been here for so long, seen so much. There is just the one eye, you can't see the rest of the face because it’s been obliterated. But, yet, she is still HERE.
The spirals represent the spinning of time.
The Ancient Wound represents that sense of restriction of being in a body while sensing our unbounded, infinite nature.