If one, however, closely observes nature during autumn without thinking of the Greek myth that labels these months as a sorrowful slide into inevitable
melancholy, one would pick up a particular and unmistakable vitality. This probably emanates from the unwillingness of life to retreat or die down with
the lengthening of night, a refusal that is carried out by everything from sturdy trees to brawny bears to frail little rodents that hibernate to escape
the hostile chill. It is a vicious tug-of-war that nature always wins, yet for the enduring spirit of nature that is present in every flora and fauna,
it is a noble battle fought year after year; it is nothing but futile.
This vivacity makes itself felt in the colors that make themselves perceptible in the leaves when the season arrives sometime in September.
The pinks, reds, yellows, and bright greens of spring and summer are replaced by orange, burnt sienna, mahogany, rust, gold, and some final
flecks of green, as if nature were a woman who suddenly changed her mind and revamped her entire wardrobe. These new colors signify warmth,
cheerfulness, and a resolve to be resilient against the impending cold fury of winter. They show life's desperate yet determined response to
inevitable death.
This intense response to forthcoming failure is something that is not far removed from our experience as humans. In fact, we, too like to
"rage, rage against the dying of the light" as poet Dylan Thomas wrote in his famous villanelle. Like the bold spirit of autumn inscribed
in each crisp, withering leaf that has fallen to the ground, we, especially, the most strong-willed among us, have a tendency to say "no"
to conceding defeat even at its most apparent. We dare to say "no" to the face of failure instead of succumb feebly to its command for us
to buckle down.
This tension between the dualities of life and death, victory and failure, fall and winter, is exactly what this painting would like to
represent using acrylic. It hopes to pull anyone who views it close enough to see, feel, taste, smell, and hear it that he or she may not
only have a brief glance at fall leaves, but more importantly, be steeped in a complete, multi-sensory journey into a precious moment of
perceiving them: autumn leaves with explosive colors against a backdrop of nippy wind, the sound of rustling and crunching, the feel of
wearing boots and coats, the memory of the myth of Persephone, and the knowledge that winter is just around the corner.
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