Acrylic on canvas
39cm x 49cm Plus frame
ITS WRITTEN IN THE SAND
Painting and story by Garry Purchase.
Who am I?.. What am I?.. Why am I here?
These are question I’ve asked myself countless times.
Life is unending journey of discovery, but what are we actually discovering about ourselves.
When it’s my time to go, there’s only two questions I want answered:
Was he a good person and did he make a difference?
That’s all.
The rest is inconsequential.
I’m not perfect, not by a long way. I’ve done plenty of stupid things that I regret over the years, but I also know I’m not the same person I was at 20 years old either. i still have a very strong fight or flight instinct that i still struggle with, but I like to think that I’ve grown and moved on from that person who was completely in fight mode and didn’t have the tools to process the cards I’d been dealt early on.
Our time is precious.
I see my path as if it is written in the sand. It’s is the culmination of all journeys that have led to where mine begins.
Time waits for no one. The years and cycles will keep turning around. That journey is fragile and temporary. I know this.
I also know the wind will eventually blow it away, as it has so many before me, but for me now it’s about passing on the story of that journey to help others while it’s still here. It’s not much. But if it helps one person and strengthens them in some way then I’m happy.
My journey and that of my ancestors continues through my kids and that path they began lives on.
Even when the wind takes it, It’ll never truly be gone.