Award of Merit, Artists of Minnesota Show 2009
(Also received Award of Merit for Around the Next Bend painting- see earlier in Blog)
Many years ago, I worked at a leprosy village in India for the summer. It was an impacting time- one not quickly forgotten. Last year whilst clearing out the basement, I found my old slides, and with them the strong recollection of sights, sounds, smells and people......and the person I was myself back then. Looking through those slides, I knew that I would revisit that time and place, but now with paint. It's interesting what we can turn up when we have a good sort out. Some things are worth reviving and revisiting when they have been packed away and dusty for a while. Things in our hearts need good sort out too, at times. Some of us have packed away and set aside our dreams and desires for practical reasons, but they call to us to get them out and revisit them again. We can go back to them and pick up where we left off, only this time, we will bring the person we are now to them. Why not pause this summer and recall the things you dreamed and aspired to when you were young, and see if they can ,once again, find a place in your life
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