"Standing With A Rose"

It has always been a fascination of mine how the mind works. Or in my case how it doesn't work at times. The processes of learning and forgetting being mirrored images, reversals of each other. As we learn about a new person or subject, things come into focus in stages. As we forget, details --once sharp in our knowing-- begin to fade into oblivion.

As I worked through this painting it dawned on me that believing that I know something completely is, in fact, a delusion. I can know certain details as absolutely as humanly possible. Yet, no matter how clearly I understand anything, it is always just a part of the whole --never the whole. There is always so much more about everyone and everything which is obscured, there in the clouds of time, not yet revealed.