Too Many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in the blog because it is so very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and just recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a graphic that we desired to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The picture was of a mountain, even as we are coming down from your top. I knew I want to it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a few hours with it about the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me towards the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and this one in particular that we had just acquired found mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies ah. For the botton with the frame would be a brass label. It had, alternatives 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 impressionism I had done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, off and away to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, the journey over the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame we became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not come to my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back of the painting and are sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!