Monastery Hallway
Monastery hallway, oil on panel, 24" x 30".
I once took an inventory of hallways and corridors I could recall in my life. I started with the obvious, my childhood house, apartments, underground parking lots, schools etc, - then I considered secondary hallways like government institutions, hospitals, commercial agencies and the like, places I moved through without any aesthetic sensibility.
Then I recounted anonymous houses where I restored flooring, long hallways with personal history scored and marked into its grainy disposition, a logic of mind and spirit that took years for me to understand. Thankfully there were doors and windows providing a mental exit when necessary.
However these are the literal corridors of one's daily routine. They require more study in order to assess their underground meaning.
This painting evolved from a liminal sense I had about the past and present. A monastery corridor, like the hallway of the mind, conveying transition from one time to another.
- Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS
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