From Here, Everything Framed Original Contemporary Digital Fine Art

Aug 5

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Welcome to my August collection of Original Contemporary Digital Fine Art!

Sometimes, when we are climbing, the mountain becomes our entire world, we see the next step, the next obstacle, the ground immediately beneath our feet. We become so focused on simply continuing that it can be impossible to imagine what might exist beyond the path in front of us, and then comes the view.

We look back and see distances we once thought impossible stretching away beneath us as we realise that somewhere amongst all those stubborn little steps, we climbed an entire mountain. The places we once looked towards from far below are now beneath our feet, and beyond them lies a horizon larger than anything we could have seen from where we began. That's what this year has felt like so far for me personally. Now, in August as I return to work having moved into my temporary studio whilst I wait for my house sale to complete, I have been able to take some time out and really reflect and realise how far I have actually come this year. At The Edge of extraordinary is a celebration of that moment, this whole year so far.

This collection is not about looking back at the darkness and asking whether it was worth it, it is about looking forward and being overwhelmingly glad that the darkness did not win. There are still mountains I haven't climbed, places I haven't wandered through, people I haven't met, art I haven't created, books I haven't read. music I haven't heard, adventures I haven't taken and ridiculous stories I haven't lived long enough to tell. There is an entire future out there containing things I do not even know to dream about yet; standing here, looking towards all of it, I no longer feel as though I have reached the end of a climb, I feel as though I have reached the beginning of something enormously exciting, I am standing at the edge of extraordinary.

From Here, Everything

There is a particular kind of wonder in reaching somewhere you once looked towards from far below. For so long, the summit exists only as an idea, something distant and uncertain, glimpsed between difficult stretches of the climb. Then, somehow, the ground beneath your feet changes. You look back, and all those impossible distances have become the path behind you. From Here, Everything is about that moment.

The glorious, dizzying realisation that you made it further than you once knew you could, and the greatest gift of reaching one summit is discovering that the horizon has not become smaller, it has become extraordinarily enormous, there are more mountains, more adventures, more places we have never stood before, but now we know something we didn't know at the bottom, we can climb. And from here? Everything.