For Others | oil on canvas
Jan Marshall paintings and drawings
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For Others  |  oil on canvas

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For Others, IX

For Others, VIII

For Others, VII

For Others, IV

For Others, V

For Others, IV

For Others, III

For Others, II

For Others, I

For Others and Passage paintings are interpretations of how I visualize breath. The scale of the largest paintings in the series For Others is a deliberate reference to myself. Each of the panels of the seventeen-foot wide oil on canvas triptychs are five-and-a-half feet by five-and-a-half feet; human scale, my height, my essence. Inspired by a meditation practice of forgiveness, each panel is breath. Breathing in the darkness, transforming it, and breathing out the light. Breathing in challenges and difficulties, and breathing out forgiveness. This meditation practice may seem counter-intuitive, but it is a profound form of meditation that has been a great gift in my life.

Like the For Others paintings, Passage is about breath. The lines evoke the gap between the in-breath and out-breath where transformation can occur. Again, breathing in the darkness, pausing, transforming it, and breathing out the light. In the For Others paintings the gap is portrayed with a literal gap between the panels of the triptych. In Passage it is the lines.

There are also pastels of the For Others series that are not included in the website.