Blue Willow Cloth

The role of caregiver is not valued in our culture.  Care giving has been feminized.  Loss cracks the door open a little.  Any loss cracks all the doors open, your grief comes back.  I’ve just gotten better at closing those doors in a respectful way.  

Anthea Black (paraphrased slightly) 

empathy

 Soft sculpture encourages empathy between the viewer and the sculpture because like the human body which it resembles in its lumps, bumps, folds, and crevices, soft sculpture is subject to the force of gravity to a degree that rigid sculpture is not .  

The reliance on gravity to determine the final shape of a work can be viewed as a reliance on chance. 

Barbara Rose, art critic, about Claus Oldenburg, 1967

I will

Take care of your heart  he said. 

I will I said. 

You have to he said. 

I will.  Take care of yours I said. 
 

What others might think

I phoned her. 

I texted with her through the day.

Aging and Renewal

Journals are a lifeline between the inside and the outside. 

Christina Baldwin

Feminine Readers

 Feminine writing is for the feminine reader. 

A feminine reader studies a collection of texts that deal with fundamental issues of existence in ways that question our perception of ourselves and others.  They want to create a better life.  

Helene Cixous writes for the feminine reader.   

Susan Sellers editor of the Helene Cixous Reader

Seekers

 To have imagination and to be aware of it is to benefit from possessing an inner richness and a spontaneous and endless flood of images.  

Magdalena Abakanowicz