Artist: Diana May Rice
Title: Unfinished Business
Medium: Acrylic and pencil on canvas
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
Price: $444
Artist’s Statement: April 18th, 2022, 5:22 PM. I’m crouched on the kitchen floor of this cozy little lake house in the small town of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. So many good memories that had been made there were flashing through my mind. As I was grieving my four year relationship the only thing I could bring myself to do was paint. Using myself as a reference, I captured one of the most vulnerable moments of my life. The painting stayed in a bag and went through the ringer with me as I moved four times in the last year. I couldn’t bring myself to “finish” it because I will never reach that place again, emotionally or physically. Thank God. At the end of a relationship there is so much left undone, children that will never be born, vacations that will never be taken, and dreams that will never come to fruition. I have accepted that chapter is over and finally “tied up the loose ends” by adding the black edges. It feels finished now. While this business may have failed, a new one takes hold and I get to begin again.
