the three graces

 journey to softness continues 

Guided by my grandmother penguin, my grandmother shark, and my mother muskrat.  

Art is an adventure.  More later xx

act of hope

 

doing and making are acts of hope
and as that hope grows,
we stop feeling overwhelmed by the troubles of the world.

sister Corita Kent

a history of what is carried

 

 

"work that might seem very ordered in a way, but also has a history of its own making, a history of what it carried, and I want that to be very present"
Lawrence Carroll

to softness

 

it's a journey

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

I had to

I realized before bed that I had to cut holes
woke this morning to truth
and trust

blanket work

my work with blankets
doesn't seem so odd
after my visit to Art Toronto this weekend