Calmness Prevails
First, a disclaimer regarding the photos in this post. These shots were taken with my iPhone, so please keep that fact in mind when viewing the images.
I took these images a couple of days ago during a meeting I had with a local art dealer here in Dayton and one of the staff members of the administration of Miami Valley Hospital. The location was the lobby entrance to the emergency room at the Hospital’s main location, between Main and Brown Streets in downtown Dayton.
Here was another installment of a number of my nature and landscape photographs, most in the 30″x40″ print size. This installment went into place about a year ago, but this was the first time I actually had an opportunity to go view it. These iPhone pics do not do it justice. The framed prints look fantastic.
The visit a couple of days ago was also my first time back through the emergency room entrance to Miami Valley Hospital since that cold, dark day in mid-December, 1994. I won’t go into detail about that day. Besides, I’ve written enough about that experience already.
I will just use a few words to describe that bleak, gray day: rock-bottom, despair, darkness, humiliation.
Get the picture ?
How uplifting it is to return and view my artwork lining the walls of a place that witnessed such a dark time in my life. To see my artistic vision of beauty and spiritual renewal found in the gifts of nature, rediscovered after years of absence, now playing a role in helping others find calmness and hope during times of pain and darkness is so much more rewarding than making a sale or gaining artistic exposure or chalking up another credit listing.
I love what I do. I can’t imagine doing anything else. I am truly blessed, and I am grateful.
