Be advised the coldest day follows weeks after the shortest
I completed this after spending the holidays in Salt Lake, clear and cold, with family I hadn’t seen in decades. Easily picked up where we’d left off. Nothing earth shattering, just reaffirming connections. This painting isn’t specifically about that, or anything except itself, but some of what I remember about the light made its way in.
By the way, about the titles. They’re basically just good, if unorthodox, advice, loosely associated to the painting so named. They started in the imperative mood, and I decided to keep going with that. Not just for consistency but because it makes a demand or a request. The person who receives a demand or request goes into a reflective mode where they are weighing whether or not to do what is asked, entering a decision space. I prefer that to titles that are more passively descriptive, which prompt the viewer to assess the match more than the substance, which is kind of beside the point.