Heartsong Studio

I found this heading logo on Send Out Cards new website.   At first it looked like an edge of a maple leaf on a white background.   At second glance I saw how the cutouts of the leaf edge were human shapes. Some folks see the people first and the leaf only with difficulty.  Could be it’s a cultural thing, for a Canadian to see a maple leaf.   What do you see here?

What struck me about this design was how without the people the leaf shape would be nothing, and without the leaf shape the people would be invisible.   But this negative-positive interplay is a visual metaphor for everything in this world, is it not?

I played with this abstract design with no particular intention other than curiosity.

Out of my play came:    (Click image to enlarge for detail.)

Letting Go

18″ X 14″ acrylic on canvas

It seems to me like a play on the sense of life gradually aging, transforming, disappearing In The Flow of Time, or Into Thin Air which are other possible titles.  It also seems to hold a sense of how everything physical, emotional and spiritual is a Continuity, interconnected in some way.

I also hadn’t noticed another contradiction until I showed it to a friend. I’d needed the tiniest pointed brush to paint much of it.   I’d often advised new artists against doing this as it tends to make you uptight, the opposite of how the painting felt to me — letting go.

What title fits it best from your point of view?

Letting Go
Into Thin Air
In the Flow of Time
Continuity

or something else?

By the way, I can find 5 leaves and at least 30 people letting go.