BIRTHMARKS-The Beginning To A End Exhibition This September

Life has been hard these past few months which am sorta use to THE HARD LIFE but its been extra testing even to the point of firing off my life long issues with Depression. Depression is not about not feeling good for those who don’t suffer from this Desease it is basically like crawling into a trench of life and hoping to vanish into dust. It is all to smothering.

On top of that I have a group show in September and then to create a special solo piece for a special event in October. Lets say I feel the pressure but as Depression exist its like i cannot do anything about it and my spirit is suffering.

Then i stumbled across a video on Instagram of this older gentleman knocking on 100 years old who has been a painter his whole life i assume and the video had his daughter saying how she stumbled into his art room and he was making major changes to a large painting that is due very soon for display and she was in panic and asked him why such a change especially at this stage. He said something that inspires me ever time i think about it and so he said “I had to change direction because the painting told him to do so and when the train gets off the tracks he said you are then to ATTTACK the painting and do what is needed for the painting. Just those words which I totally understand is all it took to perhaps not get me out of the trenches of life but to at least try and ATTACK my collections.

So with that in mind I decided to use what art I have been able to do and that is basically my doodles which are in fact my drawings in which many are the birthplace to a larger or at least a even greater version of the doodle which I prefer to call my drawings. So for the first exhibition due in September I will display these small but still possibly just as powerful images that if you think about it are the birthplace to something more. That in my mind makes it a powerful collection a true and honest collection of where I have been in my emotional state.

So here to the birth of a new collection entitled “BIRTHMARKS”-The Beginning To A End

Today 06/25/25

The Second Season I call it. Why? Well its sorta my second year since Art found this broken man and saved him in many ways. Not sure what to do with the rest of my life except to be here for my family and perhaps others I had no idea why I was still walking this earth and some now friends here in Greenville SC encourged me to try my hand at traditional art. Oddly enough this lead to my first exhibition by the Metropolitan Arts Council here in Greenville which again oddly enough seemed to be a success and the man who could not draw or paint traditionally was born into “The Marks of A Simple Man’.

Now into my second season I teach myself like the first season. Coming up with my own cirrculum and no need for grades I learn by doing and letting fate take over to teach me what it is my soul needs to know but I have to keep pushing myself to create and let the rest happen and that ends this year with two exhibitions among other things to finish out my second season and from there the third season will await me-await me to become more…and to take me where may.

Talon Grace