dream

 

That night she dreamed of birds, long, bright red birds like flamingos, zipping through a black forest and making scallopy patterns, arcs of red that curved like their cries.  

Patricia Highsmith The Price of Salt 

everything I want to say

 The days and nights zoom past. 

I’m busy all day with my work and life and am content.  There is just the right amount of time. 

solar symbols

 Circle:

The most natural representation of the sun.  

Completeness.  Continuity.  Cyclical Nature of the Universe.

Circle with dot in the centre is symbol of the moment when the earth receives the light of the sun.  Spring.

Circle with sun rays is about human frailty. 

Circles within circles are about androgyny.

truth and beauty

 the main players in any relationship are mother and child

A Melanie Klein belief.

How I want my art to be

How I want my art to be.   

Birthing a baby, yearning for love, fearing nuclear disaster…all the fodder in women’s magazines that plays on our fears and our dreams.  Use that as the ground.       March 1991 journal 

found embroideries arranged on linen