Painting with a Meaning
People have claimed time and time again that a picture is worth a thousand words. These words don’t always slip right off the tongue because the piece may have been created to cause debate, help strive for social justice, is just based on a taboo subject that most people choose to ignore and forget about, or, if it’s abstract art, is created with the intent of inflicting certain thoughts and emotions from a viewer, which is just code for made up of the artist’s lack of creativity and great skill of throwing paint willy nilly onto a canvas. Whatever the topic of the piece is, art can bring forth thousands of ideas and, yes, a thousand words. Full of nature and emotion, “Spirit of the Lake” by the brilliant Audra Auclair is just one painting amongst many that leaves a viewer bursting with ideas and questions. People could talk and debate for hours over the meaning, but it is entirely believable that “Spirit of the Lake” depicts a dark lake that is dying due to pollution and cradling a pale female spirit, who is the keeper of the lake and losing the battle to keep it alive as she slices her own…