Fine art print from Alyssa Parry.
 
Print on Archival Linen Paper with an optional 1/2" Extra Border Added
 
Printed to order and then shipped directly from the printer, please allow extra time for fulfillment, thank you! 
 
Artist Statement:
I have always loved the passage from "The Mill on the Floss",
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers... What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?"
 
As I painted "A Happy Day" I thought about this passage a lot. How sometimes we focus so much on the big picture while little children focus on the smallest of details. How we as adults focus on finishing the picture we are coloring, while a little child is focused on the process of creating. 
 
Christ teaches we must become as little children. There must be a reason for that. 
 
I named it "A Happy Day" as a reminder that there are 86,400 seconds in a day. Each second is an opportunity to feel the earth beneath us, just like we once did as little children.
 
Never forget that the hands that created the stars are the hands that created each of us. Knowing that is enough to make even the worst of days feel like "A Happy Day".