A lot of Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this within a blog which is simply so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting simply just recently took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the medial side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed a picture that we wanted to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of your mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I needed it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. I really created a canvas. I knew ahead of time that the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a couple hours in it on the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me on the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames this also one inch particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But here is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. On 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 needed completed in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, awaiting new life, off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, your journey over the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t visit my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back with the painting and will also be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!