"Bones Ache With Remembrance"

  • Title: Bones Ache With Remembrance
  • Artist: Danny Schreiber
  • Medium: oil on wood panel
  • Year: 2025
  • Size: 18 x 24 inch (45.72 x 60.96 cm)

This is a painting about survival. Not the triumphant kind, but the quiet endurance that etches itself into flesh. The torso turns away from the viewer, presenting a back softened by time and strained with the weight of what cannot be said. The rooted base evokes the continuity of pain and resilience—how the body remembers even what the mind tries to bury. There’s no head, no limbs—only a body standing in for all that was carried in silence.

The palette is subdued and raw, with warm wood tones bleeding into flesh as if grief itself has taken root. Background textures echo the fire-scorched bark surrounding the figure in a hauntingly quiet atmosphere. The painting does not ask for pity; it stands as a reliquary, a sacred container for what was once severed, forgotten, or reshaped by necessity.

This work poses the question: What happens when something broken continues to grow? It is less about returning to wholeness and more about the new forms we take when we allow memory, even pain, to transmute us.

It’s not just about ache—it’s about what ache becomes.

Rendered in oil with warm, natural tones and subtle textures, the painting seamlessly blends realism and symbolism, inviting reflection. Like many works in theOracles series, it leaves space for the viewer’s narrative to emerge.

Details: This original artwork is a one-of-a-kind oil painting on an 18 x 24 inch wood panel framed in an ornate dark wood frame that measures 24 x 30 inches around the outside.