SIZE:
36”W x 36”H x 1.5”D

DETAILS:
Original acrylic painting on gallery wrapped canvas
Sealed and finished with a high gloss resin coating
Signed by the artist on the front
Certificate of Authenticity provided

SHIPPING:
Price does not include shipping. Please email mione@mioneplant.com for a shipping quote based on your zip code.

ABOUT THIS WORK:
She tried to translate to child ears the meaning behind her favorite saying. To find a way to convey the adage she lived by. The saying taught to her as a child by her Croatian elders. Patience, she told me. It means to be patient, to wait; to keep working but to trust it’s going to work out.

In practice, she’d readily admit, it was hard to come by. I watched as her patience waned when it came to the minor things. But always, as if reserved and stored for winter as she’d practiced on her childhood farm, there it appeared. Alive and ready to thrive for the major things, as she’d patiently watch the universe grow, to wow yet again.

It became a game, to observe the course it would take, never the same as her wish, but the result somehow better. Every time met by a major roadblock, threatening to shake her belief in the possible, she adjusted the path but never the wish. The roadblock consistently delivering greater beauty, a grander prize.

Tiha Voda she would whisper to my adult ears, knowing finally I would understand. Tiha Voda Brege Dere she uttered in her beautiful accent - Slow Water Breaks Mountains.

She says it calmly and with certainty when I drop my calamities at her feet. She gently taps my arm as she hums it when I air my grievances. When I hold minimal patience, she trusts in infinite magic. You have to work, you can’t give up, you don’t half ass your dreams, Mom reminds, but also you wait, you let go, you trust.

We climb the mountain while also awaiting the water. Movement, slowly. Progress, surely.

Tiha Voda.