Julie Aronson
Current Image: "Togetherness"
Couple Gazing into Eachother's Eyes
Portfolio
Free- Flowing
With a free-flowing approach to life, stagnation is impossible. The unpredictability of every aspect of life (political, familial, economic, social, etc.) presents a choice at every curve. For some, it is too overwhelming to take in and adjust to new information for fear they will fall off balance. Living in the free-flow and incorporating many different perspectives allows for an elasticity to comprehending the world in which we live. It’s richer to flow and learn with others than to break alone.
Togetherness
Working together to figure out the life we are in and the one we want to grow into is everything. Strategizing on how to achieve shared goals can be very attractive… who knew?
Let it Be…
While achieving radical acceptance of the most painful and challenging aspects of life is immensely difficult, fighting an unwinnable war is ultimately soul crushing. “Let it be…” is a release from the all-consuming battle making space for the promise within the unknown.
Morning
What happens from this moment may be stressful, chaotic, beautiful, amazing, or mundane. Life is unpredictable but the assuredness of us every morning is what sustains energy and provides warmth throughout the day.
Defying Stagnation
Call it what you want, but we have all felt an overwhelming urge to escape and move toward something with all the promise that other stage in life might offer. Energy, opportunity, disruption… life. A woman, hair unencumbered and free from any oppositional energy drives forward. Forward toward the unknown but forward. Forward toward danger but forward. Forward toward bliss but forward. Forward within herself.
Bravely forward.
Chapters
Within every marriage a storybook plot can be found and chapter by chapter the narrative becomes ever richer. The depth of the story develops from intensity, confusion, connection, and shared history. Profound Autism has been a long and indeed profound chapter that influences all those that follow. Storybook plots use devices to resolve conflict and sometimes referring to nature is the best course of action... as olive branches are kept alive by the leaves and water that nourish them so is a marriage with every effort to see and support one another.
I am So Lucky to Love You…
Through painting I have been able to process my life experiences. Art has become an outlet through which I am able to express myself and, hopefully, create a piece that holds meaning (perhaps different from my own) for the viewer.
“I am So Lucky to Love You” illustrates the intense effect having a child on the autism spectrum has on your life. It is a storm that changes the course of life and leaves you and your family forever changed. While my boy is on the more severe end of the spectrum and the winds can blow furiously, there are spaces of serenity and beauty only found when holding tight together through a torrential storm.
The most poignant moments of my life have been being present while looking into the purity of his eyes – it is truly transcendent.
Gold: with a flash life can change
Red: angry fits that emerge from
nowhere
Blue: true, simple, raw, tranquil
love expressed by someone
with autism.
Green: hope – though a complex
life, there must be hope
for the person and family
to experience greater and
greater amounts of the
tranquility and love that sustain them.
Mind Blown
Not much can alter a trajectory more than an autism diagnosis. Sitting there during the initial meetings a deafening occurs as your mind is completely blown away by the words exiting the doctor's mouth. As you turn to look at your partner you see in them all the fear, uncertainty, and panic within you. Life will never be the same and the trajectory on which you both now find yourselves is unknowable.
Embrace beauty when you can.
Embrace beauty’s potential;
Its growth;
Its serenity;
Its inspiration and
Its vibrancy.
With each embrace it becomes a part of you.
A reassurance that on the flip side of dark and grey color will reemerge.
Chemistry
Not much is as exciting as this moment... making contact with someone on a visceral level is a life experience not to be taken for granted at any age.
Float Above
It seems like everything is so heavy lately. The news, and it does not matter where you fall on the political spectrum, is challenging. Sometimes it is important, if not necessary, to float above it all. Like a caterpillar cocooning, we had our winter… lets fly like its summer!!
Important
It is a mistake to underestimate any stage of life, however the intense potential of youth is often missed in the moment. With time comes retrospective envy for all the “sliding doors” that once were within an arm’s reach. The world is your oyster in the small space between leaving your childhood home and building your own. That is the space… the space in life where you own yourself and have the unencumbered opportunity to find out what that means.
Art is Expression, Love & Life...
I work with acrylic art to create pieces that explore the fluctuations of life and the continuous efforts to accept, improve, and succeed within it. I reside in Chicago with my husband and am the mother of two, Skylar and Miles (who is profoundly autistic), both are sources of inspiration and pride.
