Ode to 2022
This Ode to the New Year of 2022 was written on New Year’s Day. I was still suffering from the many days spent in isolation, and also depressed by the enormous problems our country was facing, and continues to deal with. This painting was done during the turbulent years of a presidency of which I…
Water and Stone
Water and Stone The digital images from a state far away Shot by lovely daughter How they spent their day A sunny place Filled with rocks and stream Large rounded stones Smoothed by time And water Slender trees Exert their will to live And far away Grey mountains Sit silent, and still If I were…
Scattering his Ashes at Sea
My companion of fifty-six years Once the handsome stranger Who took my breath away Me, the girl in pink lipstick Luring him for a second family The engineer, leaving home early; til late Wearing headset, as rockets slowly lifted; Suddenly pluming, orange and yellow flames Rattling windows Streaking paths to distant points, dark in space…
The Pool of Time
(early experiments with my photography using Photoshop) There is a rerun on Netflix of an old television series called “Friday Night Lights” about football games played in a small town; the dramas around the coach, his family, high school teenagers, and others in the community. It seems so familiar to the way I grew up.…
Fireworks!
This is a very old, rather large painting of my Aunt Mabel and her friends celebrating the holiday at Oxford Lake, near Anniston, Alabama. Anniston is remembered for racial injustice and the bus burnings of the 1960’s. If one reads the speech by Frederick Douglas of 1852, it is evident that there is “Another View…
Isolation
Back in March when isolation really began for the Pandemic, I had been visiting my husband in a nursing home almost every day. When visiting became a threat to the safety of the residents, I could no longer visit, except to wave at him from a distance, or see him through the glass window in…
Hearts
Our art group occasionally suggests a project for the group. With Valentine’s Day approaching, Barbara suggested “Hearts.” No one has ever accused me of being overly sweet or sentimental, so I greeted this idea with some skepticism and a slight hint of rebellion. However, on contemplation and with a desire to be a good sport,…
Truth, News, and Explosions
On Wednesday, January 6th, my art group was meeting on Zoom. Someone broke in and said, “Trump supporters are invading the capital.” We quickly dismissed the meeting and turned to our TVs to view what was happening. Windows and doors of our capital were being broken, men were climbing walls, confederate flags waved, and tear…
Rabbit Emotions
Are you ready to see more Rabbit Art? I looked over my collection and decided that some of them are very appropriate to the times. RABBIT RAGE isn’t a very nice painting, but it may convey some of what I feel about the man who has been furiously tweeting from the white house for the…
Rabbits and Bunnies
I refuse to be labeled as “the rabbit artist”, but that’s what I have become. I hate cutesy objects, and yet, I must have been drawn, for some unknown reason, to the little child’s bunny pull-toy at the estate sale. Furthermore, why did I choose the larger rabbit holding the pail and carrot, with that…
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