New work: Moon Bather’s Chapel
Jason Patrick Jenkins, Moon Bather’s Chapel. Oil on Canvas, 36×18 inches. ©2024.
“As she lay there, suddenly no longer soaring through the night air, with the cold stone beneath her head, which was pitched at a peculiar angle, she strained to see the other one out of the corner of a quickly drying eyeball.
The concealment provided by the periphery and the growing dryness frustrated her efforts. Then it spread its wings and a portion of one stabbed clearly into her field of vision. She grabbed it with her will to see, like a visual anchor or foothold, and dragged her dry eyeball past it’s sticking lids, looking further and further to the side, seeking its countenance.
She longed to see who it was that in such a short spontaneous moment had such a meteoric impact on her future.
Finally, eyes awkwardly met eyes for a moment in the moonlight. She was looking upon herself, reborn, and transformed. She was both awestruck and utterly terrified.”
