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Posted On: October 3rd 2026, 11:48 pm
I've been reflecting lately on portals and perspectives.
Meditating can be a portal.
Dreaming can be a portal.
Learning can be a portal.
We enter through the gate with one perspective, and arrive at another.
I remember reading Homer's Odyssey in high school and being mesmerized by it. Particularly by the mythical encounters delaying his return home. I imagined there's no way they were in the same physical world they had been before. Were they in a new dimension? Or were these encounters symbolic, and in his subconscious? These feelings resurfaced after seeing Christopher Nolan's version this summer. When he finally returns home, he shoots his arrow through the axes before the suitors and the portal is closed. A chapter complete.
When we see an eclipse, another portal occurs. For a short while, all of our surroundings appear differently: two shadows under one light source, the sky fades to dusk, everything becomes quiet. Then comes illumination once again. We see the world in a new way after having experienced this strange alternate world together.
In celebration of a new chapter, my family road tripped to Santa Barbara. In the car driving through Ballard Canyon, we sang Joni Mitchell's, "Both Sides Now" in unison, like a spell: another portal crossed. I laughed at the irony with tears in my eyes. We were seeing from both sides now.
"Portals" [35x44 inches | acrylic and gesso on canvas | 2026 | available]
DM for inquiries 🖤
#abstractartwork #blackandwhitepainting #bothsidesnow
Meditating can be a portal.
Dreaming can be a portal.
Learning can be a portal.
We enter through the gate with one perspective, and arrive at another.
I remember reading Homer's Odyssey in high school and being mesmerized by it. Particularly by the mythical encounters delaying his return home. I imagined there's no way they were in the same physical world they had been before. Were they in a new dimension? Or were these encounters symbolic, and in his subconscious? These feelings resurfaced after seeing Christopher Nolan's version this summer. When he finally returns home, he shoots his arrow through the axes before the suitors and the portal is closed. A chapter complete.
When we see an eclipse, another portal occurs. For a short while, all of our surroundings appear differently: two shadows under one light source, the sky fades to dusk, everything becomes quiet. Then comes illumination once again. We see the world in a new way after having experienced this strange alternate world together.
In celebration of a new chapter, my family road tripped to Santa Barbara. In the car driving through Ballard Canyon, we sang Joni Mitchell's, "Both Sides Now" in unison, like a spell: another portal crossed. I laughed at the irony with tears in my eyes. We were seeing from both sides now.
"Portals" [35x44 inches | acrylic and gesso on canvas | 2026 | available]
DM for inquiries 🖤
#abstractartwork #blackandwhitepainting #bothsidesnow
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