Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
A Trippy Process
Unearthing old prints, drawings, photographs, pages from my dream journals, and photocopies that I've had stashed away for years. It seems they've all been waiting to enter my triptych...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Farther
Started working on the central panel of my triptych. I read that the central panel traditionally carries the most important information. My father takes center stage - he was more "there" than my mother. On a larger scale of meaning, this speaks about the patriarchal culture of the 50's and 60's when I was growing up...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Dark Beauty
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Working Spirit
Sunrise in my backyard in Woolwich, January 24th, 2011. My Mom died at 4am.
I packed my bags and headed to RI. It was bitter cold and the sky was very blue. I felt glad that my Mom had passed on such a day. It seemed the perfect sort of day for spirits. When I shared this thought with my daughter Kaitlyn on the phone earlier, she agreed, and remarked that on a such a day the veil between this world and the next is very thin...
Wisps of angels travelling alongside of me...
A woman papoose bird angel...
I saw my mother...
The next morning, this little bird showed up at my brother Ken and sister-in-law Bernice's house outside the kitchen window - they said that it was the first time they'd seen her at the feeder. It was a Caroline Wren, my sister Debby's favorite bird. I said, "I believe that's Mom..."
My sister Sue took pictures of her, too...
The night before, I'd pulled this book off the shelf in the guest room to read before sleep. It looked comforting, and I was glad that it was written by an Edna, my mother's name. I showed it to my sisters and brothers, and we decided to name our little visitor after the author.
Edna's Six
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