Ashley Collins Works

• Ashley Collins

• THE BALANCE OF A COIN

• Collage
• 60.0 " x 84.0 "
• If you hold your hand before your eyes, and block out the view of either side of this
  painting, the image is not complete in fact, some will be unable to process what the image is
  and so the achievement of the story is missing.
  When you find your partner in life, the same is true. It is only through the combination
  of both your actions that your life becomes the most beautiful story. The journey is shared,
  the destinations are broader and more varied, the experiences outsized and amazing.
  In fact the very origin of the design of two different sides of a coin is to add value a
  single side minted coin is easy to duplicate, more common and therefore worth less. The story
  it tells is equally less compelling. Whereas the two sides combine to something unique their
  own magical mythology.
  But this is not where the analogy of coins and love ends.
  There is a myth that when you flip a coin, you have a 50/50 chance of how the coin
  lands. In reality, because of the differing images, weight differs ever so slightly and thus the
  coin is not perfectly balanced. It is the same in our love. Sometimes one of us is the leader,
  sometimes the follower, sometimes one is the healer, other times, we are the ones being
  healed. The short term balance is never even rather it becomes so over the days, months
  and years, that love unfolds. Love is not about of tally of accomplishments, but rather a
  blending of strengths, some more subtle, some move overt.
  Just like relationships, the coin is forged through difficulty fire, and hammer, changes
  between liquid and solid. A give and take of pain and healing. The result of which is beauteous.
  When the Romans issued their first coin in 281 BC, one side of the coin was an image of
  the God Mars the God of both War and Agriculture. Thought differently, it is both the
  Warrior, and the Provider.
  The other side is that of a Horse, one ear forward one ear back. A lookout for another,
  Aware of the full circle of life around it. The Circle of a Coin. The Circle of Love.
• $74,500