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My parents signed me up for swimming lessons when I was 5 where I learned to turn onto my back and float. I have always been good at it. Now, years later, I spend summers on a beautiful large lake. During my daily swims, my favorite thing to do is float. Surrounded by the cool crystal water, buoyant and almost weightless, with my ears submerged, noises are muffled. Things become distant. Thoughts recede. The bubbling sound of water and my breath is all I hear, and I disappear from reality for a while.

The textured background was finished first on the painting. It is always a bit scary to take pen & ink and sketch with abandon. It was worth the risk as the gestural lines for the figures fit right in with the movement in the background.

This piece is about the loss of my mother and brother in 2016. They died within 6 weeks of each other. They never saw “eye to eye” and their relationship was full of misunderstanding and judgment; they never reconciled.
I imagine their souls reuniting, with hope, healing and love. The vertical, horizontal, and crossed stitched lines represent all souls coming together after leaving this world.
I know that working on this has been a step towards healing myself, releasing of some of the helplessness, guilt and sadness at not being able to help them come together in this lifetime.

Texture created by printing with acrylic medium and then painting India ink washes created a stage to place a simplified pen and ink figure drawing. This tranquil piece was then enhanced with hand stitch drawing the viewer into the peaceful world of the figure.

Texture created by printing with acrylic medium and paints created a stage to place this charming figure drawing. Her pose captivates me and makes me wonder what she is reflecting upon.

I feel a deep connection to nature. Living in New England allows me to experience distinct seasonal changes. With each season I have an opportunity to observe and appreciate the gifts that come with this never-ending cycle of birth, growth, decline and rest. This pattern echoes throughout all life. It fills my heart with hope knowing that there is a constant, that things repeat, coming full circle.

This piece started out as a challenge I posed for myself. What would it look like to just start drawing with pen & ink directly on the fabric? Taking a risk, what would I have to lose? I chose to start my drawing on silk noil that had already had clear acrylic mediums monoprinted on it which created interesting textures and resist patterns and continued to add imagery and writing. A few months after I finished it, I began to see a connection to the wildfires that the world has been experiencing. That is when my title At Risk became even more important.

This monoprint reminded me of a poem “Where Everything is Music” by the13th century Poet, Rumi. The last stanza reads…Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, unlock the spirits and let them fly in and out.

Pen and Ink washes on silk were the beginning of this piece, then came layers of printed acrylic medium and more washes of thinned paint and soon a landscape began to appear. A scene with subtle messages, muted missives, secrets that the earth holds, some of them veiled. If we sit quietly, we might start to hear and comprehend what mother earth is sharing with us.

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