Catching up with myself

Not many who know me know all of my different sides, and I sometimes feel like my artistic side is this reclusive little girl that doesn't often come out in broad daylight. This blog is an effort to shine some light on that creative little girl, and a maybe a stab at self-promotion.

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This photo is of a piece that I submitted for a juried show at PoetHouse with the theme "Memento Mori" - a latin phrase, meaning (basically) "Remember, you shall die".

The title of the entire piece (The long fall back to the center, pictured below), was inspired by Bone Poem, by Mary Oliver.

Bone Poem
by Mary Oliver

The litter under the tree
Where the owl eats--shrapnel

Of rat bones, gull debris--
Sinks into the wet leaves

Where time sits with her slow spoon,
Where we become singular, and a quickening

From light years away
Saves and maintains. O holy

Protein, O hallowed lime,
O precious clay!

Tossed under the tree
The cracked bones

Of the owl's most recent feast
Lean like shipwreck, starting

The long fall back to the center--
The seepage, the flowing,

The equity, sooner or later
In the shimmering leaves

The rat will learn to fly, the owl
Will be devoured.