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Details from Belinda’s pilgrimage chaos; of the excruciating search for
photographs (right) are equally
evocative “moodscapes,”
connecting them to the paintings,
where moods play among one
another, sometimes slipping down
to a subtle whisper, sometimes
surging to the foreground. What
emerged for Belinda during the
pilgrimages, and in these paintings
was, in her words “the irrepressible
spontaneous flow of golden
connections and shining energy
between individuals, our world and
the sacred; the subtle hues of the
power of individuals to influence
one another with their actual rather
than virtual presence - the power of
showing up and sticking around; the
mystery of dissonances that
strangely also hold together; of
beauty amid despair and hope amid
a piece of bright blue clarity and a
moment of quiet green
peacefulness; of the complete
impossibility of fathoming loss and
the unspeakable enormity of grief;
of millions of bits of loneliness
scurrying past each other daily like
debris, and the miracle of
recognition, sharing and holding on
as a sacred antidote; a recognition
of the beauty of gentle kindness
between people, which surprises
our souls at the most unexpected
moments; as does the ultimate
brave act of definitively saying 'no'
when that is needed; and the final
reminder that we must never look
at ourselves without a gentle dose
of levelling humour, for we are
never as right, as clever or as
important as we may think we are.”
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