Oh wow! Stunning LO and I love your Gourd Woman! I bet they were very popular! I so wanted to paint gourds this Spring from ones I grew last year but they got moldy during they drying process - I'm trying again this year. You are truly a talented and amazing woman!
Crowning glory indeed!! What an amazing story. How wonderful that you have created a legacy for yourself thru your art!! Not many people can say that, beyond their own family legacy!! Very inspirational!
I knew I would love the journaling, just couldn't read it all so thanks for adding it! How wonderful to know that your creations are all over the world enriching other peoples lives! And what a lovely story they carry with them. Wonderful work my friend!!
This is my journal page-left side-with the explanation of my crowning glory. Photo tag is of one of my pieces of art work-a gourd woman-. I printed the journaling on transparency and mounted it on top of a painted "pot" form on the pp. the journaling is quite long but here goes: When I asked my husband-whom I have been with longer than any other person on this planet-what he considered to be my CROWNING GLORY--his answer matched mine; our children and my GOURD WOMEN. I know Keri asked that we not use our children for the answer to her challenge, so I will choose the GOURD WOMEN. I started producing these women as an art form in 1994 after attending a three hour workshop on making gourd bowls. i think the large pear shape is evocative of women in the purest form--wide hips and narrow shoulders. As I worked on the gourds I thought of stories about women that pertained to their different issues and personalities and I created a character for each story that I wrote. There are seventeen stories and hundreds of GOURD WOMEN were sold through five galleries across the US (they are no longer available in any galleries--i got burnt out after more than ten years of production). wherever these GOURD WOMEN are there remains a thread of connectivity to me..my hands, my heart and my thoughts. So to the question of what is my CROWNING GLORY...what will people remember me for and what message do I want to leave..I answer "It is the GOURD WOMEN and I want to share the story of POTTERY WOMAN..a story that I feel may be pertinent to each of us."
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