Gray Pebbles was created in 2007.  As of September 2009, Gray Pebbles is one of Rejcel’s smallest acrylic paintings. Purposefully sized at only 9” by 12”, Rejcel expresses that something very small can still be packed with complexity, detail, purpose and passion.  Hundreds of tiny silicon pebbles embrace red, black, white and gray acrylic paint- vibrant colors to express deep passion.  The pebbles were placed upon the painting while the paint was wet to affix them.  Consequently, the pebbles take on the color of the paint on which they lay atop. 

Two stories coexist in Gray Pebbles.  Physically smaller than the average woman, the artist herself sometimes feels very insignificant.  Gray Pebbles is a self-expression that she is worthy of a closer look, as a person and as an artist.  By looking closer, her complexity becomes apparent.  The first story is a vision from afar zooming in for a closer view.

Philosophically, a second story emerges.  In life, what first appear as small and insignificant persons, circumstances and events can have a huge impact on us.  All those tiny pieces collect and form each of us into a whole, just as the gray pebbles in the painting bind together and form the whole painting.  Even the small, individual parts of our whole can affect us significantly, for the good or for the bad.  We choose the outcome.  A tiny pebble in a horse’s shoe can cause it to walk awkwardly and eventually lame it.  Its removal will allow the horse to heal and gallop gallantly.  We choose whether or not we will allow small things, even the mistakes we make, to lame us in life.  First, we must identify the pebble.  Then, we decide if the pebble will impede our walk in life or is it one we can pass underfoot. Last, we follow through.  Do we allow a harmful pebble to impede us, eventually lame us or do we remove it?  The second story is a vision very near zooming out for the broader view.