Original Painting | The Pause | Crossing: 1.7 | 160 x 100 cm Framing Option:White Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) There are moments when knowing

There are moments when knowing breaks through

They are all the same moment — the moment when understanding is complete and you realise you have not yet lived any of it

The figure in the water has stopped fighting the current and let the river take over

A figurative river landscape where a lone figure stands at the edge of blue water against towering white rock

The figures are not posing — they are being moved

Original Painting | The Pause | Crossing: 1.7 | 160 x 100 cm Framing Option:White Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) There are moments when knowingTitle: The Pause Paradox: Nothing left to do, everything complete The Story I painted trees that had stopped. Not dying finished. They had done their growing, their reaching, their holding. What was left was the bare truth of their shape. I recognised myself in them. There comes a moment when the work is done and you stand in the space that is left. Not empty. Complete. The Crossing Crossing 1. 7 Dormancy via Living Dao The Body Surrenders. The trees