Sun, Time and Serendipity
Soothing Pass-Time, Painting On Canvas With Permanent Color Markers
"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." — John 14:2 (KJV)
LINES BY LIMING 
That’s really good, John. A painting to think about.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Which part is serendipitous? chuq
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Looking at **“Sunshine, Time and Serendipity”**, I’d read the *serendipity* not as one isolated object, but as the moments where **unexpected things emerge from the chaos of time and light**.
A few places suggest it:
* **The crossing vines/lines throughout the painting** — The black swirling lines feel like the passage of time: paths, memories, choices, and lives crossing. Serendipity happens in those accidental intersections, where one path unexpectedly meets another.
* **The animals and figures hidden among the lines** — They appear almost discovered rather than deliberately placed. A viewer notices a bird, a person, a creature only after searching. That act of *finding something you weren’t looking for* is almost the definition of serendipity.
* **The boundary between the warm sun side and the cool night side** — The central white sun/moon-like circle sits between two worlds. The transition zone—the place where day becomes night—is a chance moment, neither one thing nor the other. That “in-between” space often carries the feeling of serendipitous discovery.
* **The accidental-looking shapes in the yellow center** — The brightest area is also where the tangled lines are most complex. It suggests that insight or joy can appear from confusion: you don’t plan the discovery; you stumble upon it.
If I had to point to *one* visual location, I’d say **the tangled meeting point around the central white circle** is the heart of the serendipity: sunshine illuminates it, time creates the swirling paths, and within that complexity unexpected encounters appear.
A nice thing about the title is that it makes the viewer participate: the “serendipity” may literally be **what each person happens to notice first**—a hidden animal, a figure, a connection between lines. The painting creates the conditions for a discovery rather than telling you exactly what to see.
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Which, of course, is the heart of my artistic genius.
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I am not an art junkie……I prefer Dali-esque. LOL chuq
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