Category: Collection: Philosophical Reflection

Road to Recover (Fall 2014) copyright Marika Reinke

Road to Recovery (Fall 2014)

Road to Recover (Fall 2014) copyright Marika Reinke
Road to Recovery (Fall 2014) copyright Marika Reinke

Some days the winds wrap us up so tight we become the eye of the tornado. Trapped inside, the world collapses on itself and there is no gust we can grasp. The storm picks us up and ponders what it will do while we uselessly fight, kick and scream against the assault and injustice. Then we let go of trying to rein the wind.  The chaos unwinds.  The winds unfold and beautifully reveal unexpected surprises.

Watercolor 12″ x 9″

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Mother copyright Marika Reinke

2003: Mother

Mother copyright Marika Reinke
Mother copyright Marika Reinke

At times, our most beloved feel most distant and those closest most mysterious. Their landscape is illusive, incomplete, and barely graspable. The more complex, the more unknowable. The more loved, the more blind.

Watercolor 16″ x 12″

Heart, Humor, Spirit copyright Marika Reinke

2014: Heart, Humor, Spirit

Heart, Humor, Spirit copyright Marika Reinke
Heart, Humor, Spirit copyright Marika Reinke

What gives me strength when I am weak? Courage when I’m scared? Confidence when I’m uncertain? Heart, humor and spirit written gently on each finger. Because floating in an unknowable sea is just a lovely, bumpy, mysterious dream.

Watercolor 12″ x 9″

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This painting was featured by the Northwest Art Alliance in May 2015.

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2004: Belly Fire

2004: Belly Fire copyright Marika Reinke
2004: Belly Fire copyright Marika Reinke

Fire is elemental fuel, at once mesmerizing, fluid and ephemeral. A comfort on a cold night and feared when unconfined. So sits anger. Harnessed, it propels growth and creativity but left untended destroys with slow burning embers or explosive eruptions. A tended belly fire is a soothing wildness pressing on perfection and demanding emotional expansion.

Watercolor 12″ x 16″

2003: Woman in Red, a Self -Portrait

2003: Woman in Red, a Self-Portrait copyright Marika Reinke
2003: Woman in Red, a Self-Portrait copyright Marika Reinke

A direct gaze distorts the truth as if it’s made of sand. To see differently expectations, photographs, mirrors, assumptions, categories, must be set aside. She emerged blind-sideways from the experiment and unwrapped a thousand other possible “me”s. Unpolished, but a strong catalyst and inspiration guiding me towards new artistic adventure and identity.

The first painting I proudly framed and hung on my living room wall, after I put the paint from photographs away.

watercolor 12″ x 16″

2014: A Wedding Vow After 12 Years copyright Marika Reinke

2014: A Wedding Vow After 12 Years

2014: A Wedding Vow After 12 Years copyright Marika Reinke
2014: A Wedding Vow After 12 Years copyright Marika Reinke

Twelve years is a formidable time. Upon review, our vows act as a magnifying glass.  They are strangely prophetic while painful and joyful.  Reflecting on the time passed, the words reach much deeper, beyond my heart and to my belly.  A long road has been traveled between twelve years and two souls, not just in time and distance but in personal growth.

During our vows we read Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XVII that ends:

“so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep”

Twelve years and our souls still merge, but do not be fooled into thinking the process is as easy, peaceful, and soothing as falling asleep. When red meets blue, they don’t just merge, but blend, fight, splatter, create structure and chaos, puncture, glow, constantly shift, recreate, learn, and reconstitute. Ultimately, the process is a form of beauty, but it is a process not a state.

My husband said this painting looked almost celestial. When I told him what it represented he said “Why? Because it is bloody and exploding everywhere?”

And the answer is “yes – that too”.

24″ x 18″ watercolor

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Three friendships lost 3 copyright Marika reinke

2014 Three Friendships Lost

2014: Three Friendships Lost copyright Marika Reinke
2014: Three Friendships Lost copyright Marika Reinke

Between 2008-2010 I slowly lost three important friendships. One burst open in an angry fight. The other simmered out after a timid attempt at conflict resolution belied by righteousness. The final one slipped into distance and silence. In each instance, I was not ready for the friendship to end but powerless to stop it. Blinded by misunderstood perspectives, three people I had fallen in love with let me go. My heartache and biting pain knew the truth; I did not give them what they needed. Sometimes I cannot give, sometimes I expect others to give, sometimes I need telepathy and other times solitude. I love them and they are beautiful people.

3 base colors. 3 paint brushes. 3 paintings.

3 painting on 5 1/2″ by 8 1/2″