Trustfall – Resist

“It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
Leonardo DaVinci

Trustfall – The Series

It began with a fierce and mournful wailing in the heart.
A visceral flailing of the soul.
In the reaching out
as sanity explodes
the artist grabs instinctively
for what is always within reach
the sketchbook.

Thanksgiving Morning 5:45am – full dark

Waking to Trustfall

Eagle – fierce and powerful and the last true guardian… FURY.

Flag – Dramatically wrenched into fierce tension – tightened, knotted, twisted, threadbare – shredding – coming unwoven – just a few stars 
coming…UNSTITCHED.
With eagle feather and red and white threads swirling all around.
Then what IF anything is there to save it?

Later on the rainy Thanksgiving morning – with the library fire roaring and the tiny tree lit

Having watched as the dark sun rose and the cardinal slept late and the Jamestown sailed into heavy squalls with lightening during the midnight watch. 

Found the eagle studio shots [from] 14 march 2011. 
Perfect for this painting.
32 x 48 panel ready to go.
Ordered a “distressed” flag – which I will torture further in the pursuit of freedom.

3 April 2025

Panels up for oiling out.
Re-energized.
Resistance beginning to grow nationwide.
Marches on the 5th.
I’m ready to dig in and do this.

RISE UP

11 May 2025 – commences and between 4.00am and 5.00am

Panel up on the easel.
Flag drying on clothesline.
Fist ready to fight.

Artist’s Post Scriptum
This is how it began.
As it became clear that there was more to be said
the resistance grew into a triptych.
Two additional smaller works flanking the eagle.
Taken together the creative response
flows from the kernel of that fierce flailing soul
grabbing for the powerful truths
of beauty, decency and justice
standing together with the voices of Resistance
and holding on tight.