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The Path: This World Can Not be Known - 30” x 40” 2018
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Thank you so much to everyone who has written to me, I truly appreciate your encouragement and support!
I've decided that the time has come for me to try to communicate in paint the transformative event of my life -a cardiac arrest when I was young and a life altering experience of death. That experience was so vast, so indescribable, so dislocating and so strangely educational that I couldn't talk about it for most of my life.When I was 12 years old I had 4 teeth pulled for braces in a dental surgeon's clinic. Something went terribly wrong with the anesthesia, my heart stopped and it took a very long time to resuscitate me. Unfortunately, my mother saw my blue, limp body being given CPR and was so traumatized that she could never bear to hear what happened - that I might have died. I've always wished that I could have described it to her before her own death. She and my stepfather were atheists, academics, scientists, they told me over and over that when you die that's the end, everything goes black, there's nothing after your heart stops.
Not so, it turns out - not true.
I want to see if I can capture something of the atmosphere of that experience by weaving it into images in this life, I'll certainly never be able to describe it in words. Maybe these paintings are a way for me to finally tell my story to the people close to me. I'll do my best and everyone can interpret them as they wish.
I'm about a third of the way into this new cycle, I'm calling it 'The Path'. I'd love it if you would check back in once in awhile.
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The Path: Not Yet Titled - 16” x 20” 2019
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The Path: Not Yet Titled - 18” x 24” 2019
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The Path: The Wheel of Time - 16” x 20” 2019
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The Path: The Language of Heaven - 24" x 24" 2018
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The Path: Dante, Canto 1 - 30" x 40" 2018
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The Path: West 87th 24" x 36" 2017
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The Path - If You Can Be from a Place, I Am from Here - 30" x 40" 2018
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The Path: I Will Wait for You - 30" x 40" 2017
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The Path: The Spiral of Time - 24" x 48" 2016
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The Path: The Compass of The World 30" x 40" 2016
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The Path: Unconquerable 24" x 48" 2017
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The Path: May your Mind be at Peace and your Heart full of Love 18" x 24" 2016
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The Path: Live in this life as if you live forever,
Live in this life as if you die tomorrow
30" x 40" 2016 -
The Path: We are all Connected
24" x 48' 2016
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Between Winters
30" x 40"
2015 -
Detail: Between Winters
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Not yet titled
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Untitled 30" x 45" 2014
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Under The Same Sky 40" x 60" 2015
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Burning Daylight 20" x 45" 2013
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The Future Not Yet Risen 20" x 45" 2013 Sold
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Crossroad 20" x 45" 2013
sold
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Guardians of the Bathurst Street Bridge 20" x 45" 2014 sold
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A Stone's Throw
20" x 45" 2013
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Emotional Armor - Encircle Me with Fire, Protect Me from Harm 40" x 60" 2012
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Emotional Armor - Fear Not 40" x 60" 2011
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Emotional Armor - In Dreams Unguarded 30" x 45" 2011
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Emotional Armor - 5 Strange Confined Years 30" x 45" 2015
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Emotional Armor - What Fortune Does Not Give She Cannot Take Away 35" x 45" 2011
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Emotional Armor - Fear Not 40" x 45" 2011 Sold
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Emotional Armor- Dawn, Which Sweeps
Everything Before It 35" x 45" 2010 -
Emotional Armor - May No Harm Come to You 30" x 45" 2012
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Time and Chance 30" x 45" 2007 Sold
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East of the Sun, West of the Moon 30" x 45" 2007 Sold
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Snakes and Ladders 30" x 45" 2013
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The Red Bar 24" x 30" 2010
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Eastern Standard Dream Time 30" x 45" 2007 Sold
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Before the Deluge 30" x 45" 2007 Sold
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Equinox 30" x 45" 2010
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Standing on Sand 24" x 36" 2007 Sold
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By Love, which moves the Sun and other Stars 40" x 60" 2007
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Canary 24" x 36" 2009 Sold
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Canary
24" x 30" 2009
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Canary Window 18" x 24" 2009 Sold
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Drake 24" x 30" 2009 Sold
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La Dolce Vita 30" x 45" Sold
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Inner Compass
24" x 36" 2006
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Remember Me 30" x 45" Sold
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Allan 40" x 45" Sold
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Nigel 35" x 45" Sold
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Greig 30" x 45" Sold
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Edward Hopper's Studio at N.Y.U. 24" x 36" 2007 Sold
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If you would like to contact me please email karen@karenvisser.com
