2D Work | Lorri Acott

The year of isolation

There was so much to think about,

to feel about, to process during the time

of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Feeling like I needed to express myself in new ways,

I began to build a body of paintings with no real awareness

of what would evolve.

My hopes were that my paintings would become a means to get glimpses into my own subconscious. I was frequently surprised, delighted, and sometimes shocked at what showed up. I continued my search for meaning as I poured through quotes that would further express my own emotional response to my work.

This little book holds some of what I’ve found.

-Lorri Acott

Dedicated to my beloved Adam.

Thank-you for this

most amazing journey.

Water and Light

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

Explore, Dream, Discover

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”

― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

Dreamscape

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

-Deb Caletti

King and Queens

"Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures."

-Simon Van Booy

Winding Road, Crooked Trails

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

-Edward Abbey

Winter Rabbit

Alice: How long is forever?
Rabbit: Sometimes only a second.

-Lewis Carroll

Sending Love from the Bird People

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

-Mary Oliver

The Way it Goes

Life is all about lows and highs like a sound wave. You will be bored listening to a single note. Modulations make the tune beautiful, ups and downs make our life crazy.

-Giridhar Alwar
My Quest for a Happy Life

Face to the Sun

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows
fall behind you.

-Maori proverb

Dreams of Black Cats and Ravens

Dreams are often most profound
when they seem the most crazy.

-Sigmund Freud

In the Breeze

My mind flits around like that, darts and dives and twitches at times, and other times perches immobile, faintly ruffling
in the breeze.

-Heather Durham
Going Feral

The World

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”

― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

Beneath the Surface

Deep in the vagrant waters
I fail to recognize
my own image.
but out of the piecemeal surface, too
how could you come
intact, and whole?

-Greeta Tripathee

Winter Day

No winter lasts forever,
no spring skips it’s turn

-Hal Borland

So I Could Fly

I’m very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird
so that I could fly.

-Joy Fielding

Wings to Fly

Feet, what do I need you for
when I have wings to fly?

-Frida Kahlo

Sparks Beyond the Night

We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.

- Alexandra Bracken
Beyond the Night

Unexpected Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops - at all-

- Emily Dickinson

The Storm

The heart of man is very much like the sea. It has it storms, it has its tides, and in its depths it has its pearls too.

-Vincent van Gogh

Connected

Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right.
No one.

-Suzy Kassem

Quills and Ravens

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens. -

—George RR Martin

Music

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

-Plato

Morning Bird

Once upon a time when women were birds,
there was the simple understanding that
to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was
to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten,
that the world is meant to be celebrated.

- Terry Tempest Williams,
When Women Were Birds

No Time to Grieve for Roses

No time to grieve for roses
when the forests are burning.

-Zbigniew Herbert

My Beautiful Life

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

-Yayoi Kusama

Now I understand what I want.

I want to be fully alive.

I want to see the colors brightly, vividly , without muting.

It's ok if it hurts my eyes;

If it makes me cry.

I want to feel the joy of life and the sadness of death.

Pain sucks.

I hate it.

But there is richness in it as well.

And to the extent I allow myself to feel pain

Is the extent to which I allow myself to feel Joy.

We are here for such a short time,

I don't want to deaden the experience.

I choose life and love

in their fullness and richness.

Now I understand what I want.

Lorri Acott

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