Here is my painting as of Mar 21, 2025. This painting is for the special event at the Salem Athenaeum to mark the 175th anniversary of Nathanial Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter." This painting is based a quotation from the novel, seen below.* My painting uses prison bars to provide a background for the text of the quotation. The wild rose bush of the quotation appears through the prison window, with its long branches positioned to suggest the scarlet letter A which is so important in the novel.
On Mar 21, 2025, I added a layer of gray to the brown window frame, and then began I began straightening the lines of the window. At this point, I thought I was close to finishing this. But I was wrong. I also thought the text was correct. Turns out I was wrong about that, too. To be continued. . . .
*Here is the quotation from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter::
"But on one side of the portal and rooted almost at the threshold was a wild rose bush covered, this month of June, with its delicate gems which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom in token that the deep heart of Nature would pity and be kind to him."
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