Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated.
The word derives from Swarnadip, the Sanskrit language name for Sri Lanka, and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend, taken from a silly fairy tale he read, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of...
The letter read,"this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word."
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It was an instant in August when I was pressed for time. It was the last painting for the exhibition, and I hate to admit it, but I cheated by using an unfinished work of mine whose likeness held the concept I wished to portray... a visual form.
In that moment, a dear friend of mine from across the universe expressed how much he adored that painting of mine - the very last painting. He asked that it be his without the knowledge that it was always his to begin with... it is fated.
It was sometime in February when I started on the original painting, a little after this special kind of love found me. But then life happened, and with time and space as the villains, the painting was left unfinished... until now.
I was taken by sweet disbelief when he wanted that piece in particular, because that painting is in all honesty of him. The form which is now the bridegroom is the stance he held in that moment we shared in the artist's studio... where time stopped.
I absolutely delight in all the surprises my life holds, the existence and development of events that happen by chance. I love how it is when I am not looking that inspiration finds me and gives me the sweetest of kisses... serendipity.
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
2009
MIXED MEDIA
14x18
IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF RYAN MOORE
