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Vera AndrewsThreshold
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 905 x 1250 mm
Condition: New
Threshold
Acrylic on canvas, 905 x 1250 mm
$800
Reflection
Every child eventually reaches a place where another step must be taken alone.
The sea offers no guarantees. It is beautiful, unpredictable and endlessly changing. To stand beside a child as they face it is an act of trust. The figures are intentionally anonymous because the moment belongs to all of us: the quiet passing on of courage from one generation to the next.
Part of Sacred Ordinary, Threshold reflects on the extraordinary significance hidden within ordinary moments of guidance and love.
Poem
The waves were never ours
to command.
Only to enter.
One hand lets go,
another reaches forward,
and somewhere between them
wonder becomes courage.
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