THE QUIET ADVENTURE
COLLECTION
Peace in the cradle of the mountains. Fields loved by the winds.
This collection was the first that I’ve offered since 2018, and I’m incredibly proud and inspired by the vision of this work.
Flow through the originals, poetry, & print reproductions below
The poetry rooted in this collection I walked through a field.
It was new to me, but I knew it already.
The earth smelled like childhood.
The grasses clung to my bare feet in familiar ways.
The only thing unknown was the landscape.
She was vast and led to places I have not been.
Adventure, we call it.
Unknowing.
But in the unknowing is a deep self-knowing.
Trust in my body. Trust in my mind.
Trust in the bravery I have shown.
Knowing that I will be brave again.
Even when the landscape unnerves me
With the edges she is asking me to explore.
Even when Adventure wraps itself in unfamiliar foliage.
I step outside of my mind
And the endlessness of my concerns
To focus on each footfall.
Moss. Small blooms to be avoided
(they are too pretty to squish).
A deep hole just the right size for a snake.
A rock to climb. Then another.
A cliff. We’re a little too high now.
A rusty-red puddle.
The sound of wind in the thousand-mile-field.
Mindfulness, they call this;
The act of focusing on the present moment.
I call it a Quiet Adventure.
And it is all so quiet and so beautiful I cannot breathe.
I cannot breathe so I take big, cavity-filling breaths.
Imprinting the scent and textures on my soul.
Consuming it in thirsty eyefuls.
Scooping it up and tucking it in
And asking it to stay with me.
I walked through a field that was wholly unfamiliar to me.
But I knew myself in it.
I knew that I would be brave.
I knew I would let it change me.∎
“The Quiet Adventure” by Emily Jeffords
Print Reproductions
Prepared on luxurious cotton canvas, these glicee reproductions look uncannily like their original painting. Each one is printed on wonderful flat fine art quality printing canvas with a large scale professional printer and hand-cut in my studio.
Sizes range from easily gift-able 8x10s to statement-making 36x48 large prints.
Listen to the story of this creation process. In this episode of the Do It For the Process podcast, I share my process and favorite methods to create and release a collection of artwork like this one.
This body of work came together slowly and gently, a form of meditation and healing over twenty plus months. There are paintings in this collection I worked on as my youngest child was crawling around my feet. Others I created as a refuge from my own home during 2020. This body of work was created selfishly as an act of self-love. But it is also for you. I hope the theme of love and adventure and peace fill you, too.
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