From Nothing To Something To Summit Framed Original Contemporary Digital Fine Art

Aug 26

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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 Nothing To Something To Summit

There are times when even sadness would feel like nothing, when the world becomes muted and distant, and life seems to happen somewhere beyond us. We move through the days without really inhabiting them, unable to summon excitement, curiosity, hope, or even the desire to wonder what might come next. Just nothing.

And then, somewhere along the way, something, something happens, a flicker of excitement, a moment of curiosity, the first ridiculous laugh that catches us by surprise. A happy plan we actually want to make replaces the dark plan, a place we suddenly want to see, an adventure we can't wait to have. A tiny spark of anticipation for a tomorrow that, not so long ago, we could barely imagine caring about.

From Nothing to Something to Summit is about what happens when those tiny sparks become a life again. The glorious, almost unbelievable exhilaration of standing somewhere we once could not imagine reaching and wanting to shout simply because we are here to experience it,

From nothing, to something, to laughter, adventure, dreams, colour, possibility, ridiculous ideas and enormous plans and then to standing at the summit with our hearts completely, magnificently alive. From nothing to something to summit.

From Nothing To Something To Summit - Contemporary Digital Fine Art by Charlie
From Nothing To Something To Summit - Contemporary Digital Fine Art by Charlie Wall