Way too many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this in a blog because it’s just so very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just recently removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside in the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I’d a picture i wished to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The look was of an mountain, even as we are decreasing from the top. I knew I needed it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. I really designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours involved with it around the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping on the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

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

But the following is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies ah. On the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, until recently 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 impressionism I had completed in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, awaiting new life, on along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, your way with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrive at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We’ve no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back in the painting and are sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!