Blooming Together | Original Painting

This piece tells a story of two plants who fell in love!

It was easy for them to fall in love, they saw the sun shining in each other's hearts and felt at home.

Along their journey their love was threatened by the weather of life. At some points it looked as if they were not going to make it at all, dried up and split up in the hot sun, or almost choaked to death by the thorns. Even the rain that brought them back to life came with fearsome lightning. But even in their darkest moments they were there for each other, to pick one another up and encourage them to keep on climbing towards the sun that once dawned in their life.

In the end they their love bloomed with so much beauty into something beyond what they could have imagined. 

It could have been easy to give up in the middle of the storms of life, they couldn't see their destiny then, they didn't know what was in store! 

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I once read a time travel book about a girl who fell in love with an older version of her future husband, but when it came time to meet him in her timeline, she could hardly stand this immature version of the man she thought she loved. Only through intervention from the future man was she encouraged to give this younger version a chance, knowing he would grow into a man worthy of her love. 

So often romantic relationships are portrayed as a fairytale, at least that's what I thought I was getting into. Yet reality begs us to dig deeper into our soul's capacity to love and to understand one another. 

Relationships of any kind are so extraordinary in that they can bring out the very best in us, as well as they can bring out the very worst of the worst. I've always viewed them as a sort of spiritual growth shortcut in that they show you yourself like a mirror, the exact areas of yourself you need to work on. As well as the right people, those stars in our life, encourage us beyond our limited ideas, seeing us from an outsider's perspective and calling us upward into an even better view of our natural talents and wonderful personality. 

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I took a long time to create this piece and even had to hide it away at times, because it was all hitting too close to home. Rarely does anyone talk openly about the stress a relationship can undergo, but we are never alone and no relationship is perfect. 

I found this piece of wood on the side of the road, already framed but with holes in it, I figured I could turn it into something lovely! 

Part of the image is tribute to Sandro Del Prete, a famous illusionist!

I had the idea for this piece and all the figures drawn up except for the flower and then I saw Sandro's "The Blooming of Love" in a book and I thought it was the perfect image to complete my piece, meant to be!

I titled this piece "Blooming Together" to twin my painting "Growing Together" which is also about romantic love.