Busyness.  For a long time we seemed to pride ourselves on it, comparing schedules at dinner parties like trading war stories.  Somewhere along the line we were brainwashed into thinking busyness = importance, worth, value.

But really the opposite is true.  When we are whirring through life, we fail to notice the gleam of the sunlight through flower petals, the slow pace of the clouds, the need in the eyes of a stranger.

 

The paintings of Albuquerque artist Tracy Rocca arise “from a conscious effort to slow down“.  In applying thin glazes of color, Rocca arrives at these luminous, pulsating paintings.  Like blown out photographs after a camera shutter opened too long, they seem to take the world in but with a slower, more mindful glance.  Our eyes search for their focus, gently, lazily.

To see more of Tracy Rocca‘s work, please visit her website.

All images are via the artist’s website.  Artist found via Winston Wachter Seattle.