Letters 2018

Carrie Graber’s painting, 'Letters', has a wonderful luminous quality, like an old master. I like the idea of this painting, the lone figure seated in a dark room illuminated by a soft light. The roses in the vase, the floral pattern on the stool, and the white nightdress of the figure. It’s a beautiful image, and I imagine Carrie laboring over its creation, probably with a tiny brush, and infinite patience, as she sought to capture the softness of light as it falls across the figure’s back. You can see her devotion to painting in the way she has carefully painted the scene. It’s like she is trying to tell us something about the act of being an artist, of the kind of quiet intensity it takes to make an artwork like this. I always think about what the artist is thinking when I look at an image like this. I think how painting is an act of love. It asks us to slow down and see.