Immersed in Lightness (March 2009)
I painted this during a Diamond Approach weekend. I remember painting in white for a long time, so long that a little friend of my son's noted on his 6th or 7th run past my easel: "Mrs. Olson, I don't see what you're painting."
The woman slowly comes awake
Awareness rising as wisps
As the blue fissures dissolve the weight
Flowing into rhythm
Immersed in golden white
Awed by the exquisitude
Stretched to sheer endlessness
Touched by the light
Rising as the crest
Poised as perfection
Emanating me
Gently sighing back into the depths