Autumn Road

by Steve Henderson

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12.000 x 9.000 inches

Title

Autumn Road

Artist

Steve Henderson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Panel

Description

Roads are many things – from crowded, congested freeways to paths that one can barely pick out before they disappear into nothingness. But regardless of their size or usage, of whether they consist of smooth asphalt or dirt and gravel, roads take us places, and we follow them to get to those places.

Generally, the wider and smoother the road, the more likely it is to go to places in an urban environment where we can shop, work, or eat. The narrow, winding, bumpy country roads, like that in the artwork, Autumn Road, tend to lead to fields and farms, meadows and the foothills of mountains. These are not quick roads simply because their surface demands that we slow down as we bump along, and the twists and turns require our full concentration.

This is like life, isn’t it? Of course it is, which is one reason why roads and paths are so frequently associated with the journey of life, this traveling through that each human does while they live and breathe on the planet.

The temptation is to look for and take the wide roads, the smooth roads, the roads that we can travel upon quickly to places where thousands and millions of people want to go.

From Jesus to Robert Frost to Brothers Grimm, teachers and poets and philosophers have extolled the virtue, and wisdom, of eschewing the wide, easy, well traveled paths and choosing the narrow, winding, slow ones instead – and for those of us who live in the high paced, frenetic, corporate-controlled society of “modern” society, this seems absurd.

“We’ll wind up out in the middle of nowhere!” we exclaim, as if silence, and remoteness, and – anathema to the “modern” mind – being alone, are the very worst things that could happen to us.

But are they? It is in silence that we are able to think; it is the remote places that are unspoiled by development and pollution; it is in being alone that we learn to listen to, and trust, our judgment.

Take the narrow road.

Autumn Road is featured in 22 Fine Art America groups.

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May 1st, 2017

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