A lot of Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this inside a blog which is just so very odd that way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and just just recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the side inside the studio. A month ago, I’d a graphic that we wished to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The image was of your mountain, even as are decreasing in the top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. So I made a canvas. I knew beforehand that the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours involved with it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me at night on the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames and this one inch particular that people had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. Around the botton with the frame was obviously 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 impressionism I had carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, the journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That was a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that individuals happened to have down in 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 more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have no idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back with the painting and are sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!