night after night

 

I had a terrible dream last night.

Then one day she stopped painting

 

 

 

So often, women wrest their art from brackets of silence.  Nothing in our special education as women encourages us to stsruggle for significance.  How do we dare to create forms and images, to illuminate our experiences, to subject our possibilities to scrutiny?

Caffyn Kelley, editor Gallerie Women's Art Volume 1  1988

relics

 

a relic is an object havig interest because of its age and association with the past
a fetish is an object believed to contain a spirit, have magical powers

both relic and fetish try to capture the essence of an experience