Keys to the Long Forgotten Kingdom
by Ceilon Aspensen
Title
Keys to the Long Forgotten Kingdom
Artist
Ceilon Aspensen
Medium
Painting - Mixed Media Watercolor
Description
View of a horse pasture from a road I used to walk my dogs on in Gallatin Gateway, Montana. Landscape.
The keys are something I've been adding to certain drawings over the last few years. I have a hard time parting with keys that I find laying around the house. I find myself wondering if they fit a lock I'm still using somewhere. I'll inevitably try the keys in all the locks I can find, but when they don't fit anything I throw them in a container for safe-keeping. Once I had accumulated a handful of these keys, I wondered why I hadn't just thrown them away. I'm not a hoarder, and I don't generally hang onto odd objects for no reason. But I had a hard time parting with the keys. And then I remembered the song "Souvenirs" from the album of the same name by Dan Fogelberg: "And here is the key to a house far away, where I used to live as a child. They tore down the building when I moved away, and left the key unreconciled." I realized that I had the same feeling about these keys that he describes in that song--each one represents a loose end, an unreconciled place or object that is now separated from the thing that can unlock it. So every now and then an image I'm working on will seem to call out for the keys in some way, usually connected to the place or object that I am drawing being unreconciled in my own life some way. Whenever these keys show up in one of my pieces it is a reference to one of those unreconciled events.
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March 4th, 2013
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