Way too many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this within a blog because it is so very odd that way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and just recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I’d an image that we wanted to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The image was of a mountain, even as are decreasing from your top. I knew I want to it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. So I designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple hours with it about the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames which one in particular that people had just acquired found mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. On the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, as yet 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 impressionist artist I’d completed in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, expecting new life, off to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. That was a little bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!