Deborah Dicembre
Humility
68.5 x 68.5cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Framed in black float frame
This painting is about the humility it takes to heal our wounds; to face our defense and avoidance mechanisms. We have to be willing to look at the ways in which our wounds still hurt us and others; even tho' of course, we didn't put them there! It's still our responsibility to address them, heal them , tend to them, and in doing that bring peace to our inner world and also the world of relationship with others that exists around us.
This painting HUMILITY is part of a diptych. The other piece is called PRIDE. Now these are seemingly opposites and of course they can be. But there's also healthy pride - the kind we take in knowing we are worthy of love, worthy of taking caring of.
The bright colours in HUMILITY and PRIDE represent the breakthrough. The soft pinks and whites express the tender parts of the human soul that aren't readily obvious but upon closer inspection balance out the composition. As they do in the human being. We are not all outward pizzazz and show. We keep our tenderness, our intimacy for our closest relationships , particularly the one we are having with ourselves , which in fact , informs all the others.