Way too many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in a blog because it’s just so very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and just just recently took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had created a picture which i wished to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of an mountain, as we are decreasing in the top. I knew I desired it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. Therefore i made a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours involved with it on the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and this one in particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. For the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, as yet framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Classical impressionist artist I had created done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, awaiting new life, on the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, the journey with the shadows and mountain highs. Which was somewhat an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that individuals became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been concerning the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We have no clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back of the painting and you will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!