Too Many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in the blog since it is simply so very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and only recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to along side it from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had a graphic that we wanted to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The look was of a mountain, even as we are coming down from your top. I knew I desired it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. I really designed a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple hours involved with it about the first day. The other day, I took the painting when camping to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and this one out of particular we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. For the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, up to now framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Classical impressionism I needed carried out the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, looking forward to new life, on the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in daily life, your way with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been somewhat a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back in the painting and will also be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!