Altered Lifedrawing3, 28cm x 35.5cm, 11"x14", India ink, conté crayon, 100lb archival paper.
Words written in the drawing:
age comes whizzing in on us
caterpillar woman
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If this image becomes an opportunity to dialogue with yourself about various issues, perhaps age-related, perhaps grandmother or elderly mother, or who knows, the crone, or perhaps death itself, reaching the edge of the lifespan and finding your body becoming larval and the wings that will take you out, enable you to flee a collapsing body, then ... yes...
(With thanks to Bent Lorentzen for eliciting this response from me to some of his comments on the drawing.)
oh my, this is quite profound, Brenda...
ReplyDeleteYou can go deep into this one, or pull back and get all sorts of iconic image-messages. Very well done, Brenda. You keep surprising the hell out of me...
And it's really a very understated image. I keep looking at it and seeing new things all the time. And taken as a whole, wow!
Glad it's working at deeper levels in that way for you, Bent... a comment like yours makes all the effort of mining the self to create a drawing worth it. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI feel like all of those things at once..especially now..just hitting the big 50..wonderful depiction and transcendent meaning..love the part .."and the wings will take you out"..we all have them dont we..!.BeAuTiFuL..!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Robin, for your delightful comment!
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