Sunset No.150

Beginning this project at an arbitrary time in January, and painting three sunsets a week on the same days (mon, wed, fri), I had no idea of the significance of the particular day on which it would end. I only knew I was to paint 150 paintings when I started, I gave no mind to the day it ended until it this day.

After receiving an email from a friend about what this day meant to the world and not just me, I was very surprised. First, I knew the world was supposed to end on 2013 according to the Mayan calendar and the highly publicized reports, but who knew it ended on December 21st? the same day as my last sunset! If anything I thought it ended January 1st. The final surprise, as if the world ending was not enough, was that today was the winter solstice. I had to google winter solstice to even see what that meant. I found that it was quite a significant event indeed, marking the first day of winter, and it is also the shortest day of the year and the longest night. The solstice is in short, the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days, and also the day the sun heads back in the opposite direction in my case back to the right.

Affirmations are something I look for in life and this was certainly an affirmation to me. An affirmation that this project was blessed, is blessed, and will continue to be blessed. You see this project is about painting, but not just that, it's about prayer, doing the thing you are called to do, and not giving up.