Pursuit is part of Metabolize, a four-painting series tracing the lifecycle of desire: Arising, Pursuit, Fulfillment, and Dissolution. The collection grew from my contemplative practice and a long relationship with impermanence, how everything we want, hold, and release is always already changing.
Pursuit captures the reaching, the forward motion of longing before it finds rest. I chose acrylic and soft pastels for their tension: acrylic commits, pastels dissolve. That push and pull mirrors desire itself. I worked in blues because blue carries distance, the space between where you are and where you want to be. The blues blur and fold into one another, never settling. There is no focal point. The eye keeps moving, and that is intentional.
I hope collectors feel the aliveness of wanting, not as suffering but as tenderness. When the whole body is oriented toward something, and you are fully in motion. Pursuit asks you to stay in that reaching and recognize it as its own form of presence.
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Year: 2025
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Medium: Acrylic and soft pastels on canvas
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Size: 24 W x 36 H x 1 3/8 D inches
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Included: Guided meditation created in dialogue with the artwork
- Signed by the Artist
- Unframed
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Collection: Metabolize
- All purchases are final sale.
- Available for pickup in Los Angeles. Contact Rachel at r@racheldweissman.com to inquire.
About the Artist
Rachel Weissman is an academically trained and practicing visual artist. Her education in drawing, painting, and design provided a strong foundation in form, color, and composition. Her ongoing art practice explores the more subtle terrain of awareness, perception, and presence. Rachel is also a certified meditation teacher with thousands of hours of practice. Her spiritual foundation draws on Advaita Vedanta, Hindu Tantra, and Tibetan Buddhism, and is further informed by contemporary psychological, somatic, and integral developmental approaches. These influences converge into art that serves as a vehicle for contemplative practice. Learn more about Rachel here.
For wholesale inquiries, email r@racheldweissman.com.
