While the original canvas had 4 different paintings, each layered over the last, the central flower emerged through every layer of paint and water as if to announce its presence, its fortitude and its permanence in a chaotic external world that tried to dim its light and hide its glory. The final painting is the one you see here; an image of a glowing central flower surrounded by shimmer and darkness and enveloped in a green and blue world of privacy and tranquility. It is a world once hidden and secluded from everyone and everything, now accessible and available and symbolizing self-love and self-discovery.
The Love of My Life is indeed about finding infinite, eternal, and unconditional love from within and through a wild series of events, this flower that persisted through iteration after iteration found its final home with Grace Hightower - actress, entrepreneur, and spouse to Robert de Niro for 20 years. Now a friend, Grace continues to uplift, encourage, and inspire while thoughtfully and generously investing into StudioTumazi. The painting that inspired her to say, “When I look at it, I see myself,” can live on in your life, too, where you can see yourself blooming, glowing, and radiating the truth of who you are no matter what happens around you and no matter how many iterations it takes you.
