Light

Original paintings by
Andrea Pereira de Almeida

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How do you want to see the world?

How you choose to see something changes its behavior–this is called the observer effect. Your state of mind creates your version of reality. Remember when you were a little kid and you got to experience something for the first time? Like putting your feet in sand or jumping into the ocean? That moment of awe and feeling of belonging is what I try to express through my art. This collection of paintings is a celebration of our beautiful connection to Nature through fractured light, and it’s ability to make us feel whole.

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Paintings

View of Dream Lake and Hallett Peak at Rocky Mountain National Park.

Overlooking Silver Lake at Sidecut Metropark in Maumee, Ohio

Mid-run view of Evergreen Lake at Oak Openings Metropark.

Sunset over the farm in Brazil.

Light celebrating the end of the day.

Mid-run view along the lakeshore path in Chicago. It was 10 degrees this day, my eyelashes froze, and I couldn’t stop smiling. I was in awe of the colors of this city.

There are spots around Evergreen Lake at Oak Openings Metropark that have the ability to stop you in your tracks. In Fall, the trees around the lake start to change and the water reflects vivid yellows, oranges, and reds. This is one of my favorite lookouts–where I feel protected by the tall oaks above me, and in awe of the millions of colored lights bouncing off the water and twinkling through the branches and leaves.

Sunny winter day in Rocky Mountain National Park.

This scene is from an old home movie I watched of my mother-in-law, Pat (Peeky), with her 3 kids along the shore of Lake Michigan. My father-in-law, Dean, captured the original scene behind the camera in the Summer of 1992.

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Murals

There’s something so beautiful about painting a flower one day and the next day it’s curled up and in the process of decaying. The circle of life and death is so visually apparent in a potted plant. As one flower dies, another sprouts, then blooms. It’s a continual process that can’t be separated. The flower isn’t afraid it’s going to die, it just blooms fully, because it can.

There are spots around Evergreen Lake at Oak Openings Metropark that have the ability to stop you in your tracks. In Fall, the trees around the lake start to change and the water reflects vivid yellows, oranges, and reds. This is one of my favorite lookouts–where I feel protected by the tall oaks above me, and in awe of the millions of colored lights bouncing off the water and twinkling through the branches and leaves.

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Light

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