#empty beach

[lightcolours]

Empty Spaces

[the-way-we-were]

Extra bacon on mine…!!!

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Sarai

Artist: Nancy Camden Witt (American, 1930-2009)

Date: 1981

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Description

This is an oil on canvas painting referring to the Old Testament story of Sarai, Abraham's wife, and Hagar, Sarai's Egyptian slave.

Sarai was unable to bear children and told her husband Abraham to impregnate her Egyptian slave Hagar. After Hagar became pregnant with a son, Ishmael, her relationship with Sarai deteriorated. Eventually Sarai had her own son, Isaac, and expelled Hagar and Ishmael from her home.

Witt’s vision of this story draws on the psychological theories of Carl Jung, whose writings focus on the process of integrating the human unconscious into our conscious lives. Sarai sits in a white wedding gown, and Hagar wears mournful black. The women become each other’s “shadow”— Jung’s term for the hidden and public sides of a single personality.

[tworacoonsinabunnysuit]

It pays to wake up early, you know…

[ephemeralskies]

live in the sunshine, swim the sea / drink the wild air's salubrity

- ralph waldo emerson

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[meteokcu]

After a long walking, you were tired and thirsty. We took a long break at that empty beach near to Fethiye. Now it is at a long long distance; there are years between that picture and me sitting on my couch. I missed you babe, you and me loving each other at that beach...

[kodachrome-net]

Will Rogers State Beach, October 2023

[hanna-barbara]