IMPRINT Travel Wallet

What's a travel wallet? Why do you need one? We all need more pockets, to be somewhat more organized and just have more access to our stuffs when we travel, especially abroad. This wallet was designed specifically to keep all those things in mind. When opened, it measures 7.87 x 7.87 IN, 7.87 x 3.84 IN when folded. It's big enough for your passport, different currencies, credit cards and a coin pouch because not everything is paper over yonder. This also makes a great gift for those travel beginners!

ABOUT THE PAINTING:

IMPRINT: Acrylic on canvas, 3 x 3 FT.

Merriam-Webster defines IMPRINT as to fix indelibly or permanently. We have imprints all around us. We create imprints everyday, within our families, within our friendships, even the strangers whose paths we happen to cross. Imprints can be good or bad but they are much stronger than impressions people might consider they’ve left behind in their absence. Imprints are a little more than  what I say it all the time: a passing smile can change someone’s whole day. But, what if that smile pulled someone out of a chasm? You never know. A simple game with a child can inform that child’s sense of right and wrong as an adult. A grandma’s loving arms can wipe away all the bruises the world tried to give her granddaughter.

Imprints are about what one leaves on another, but they’re also so much more. There are those that offer this soothing touch, where their imprints give balance to all your struggles. There are those that have an almost magic trace that stops time; if only for a moment, to connect you and make you feel grounded. Some imprints aren’t felt until after they’re gone, like a long-lost smell that makes you feel at home even when that’s far away and a distant dream. Or, when you hear a melody floating in the air and can’t connect it to anything but suddenly know the words to a song.

Imprints are complex, in both those that are given and received. There’s plenty in this world that scars or traumatizes; this piece isn’t about that. This painting is about the salves we find in our lives, the moments of peace and tranquility. It’s, overall, a study in simplicity with the three dominant colors but a lot is going on in patterns within that structure. There are subtle designs beneath the surface, the hard lines and soft curves… this piece represents a visual meditation, to put aside all those outside forces compelling you to be something “other”. This piece is about just being.