Masks are FUN!
I like masks! They remind me of Halloween. Which takes me back to my childhood. What fun to dress up as some character and knock on doors to receive treats!!! My mother made some of our costumes, as I then did for my children. At some point, I made these
Protection
With my background as a health professional, I immediately think of the respiratory protection a mask affords its user. And now with the measles epidemic here in the state of Michigan, I am certain that respiratory masks are in high demand. Whose responsibility is it to protect the
The masks we all wear
We all have multiple roles in our lives and, although we may not consciously do so, we all wear different masks in our different roles. Mother, wife, friend, artist, teacher, citizen. And those are just my major roles, what are yours? Our ‘masks’ may include wearing specific clothes, moderating
X , O
This work was a difficult challenge for me. I took approach to this piece with a more negative and improvised perspective. I was inspired by ” X,O” painted on the wall, and I used this symbol to represent thoughts such as ” discord, disagreement, disunity, opposite, etc”. Theoretically,
Use Your Words
Dis-unity was a difficult prompt for me to get my head around. I have written more about that on my personal blog. I originally wanted to create a flag quilt because I thought it might be fun to revisit that idea and make another pieced US flag, but the
Where Have All the Children Gone?
I don’t have any answers. I don’t have any solutions. I am only so confused. I can’t begin to understand the gun violence in our country. And the disunity involved in trying to reduce the incidence of violent massacres. I do know that the Sandy Hook massacre rocked my heart to
Something is Broken
Disunity. There’s something to ponder! When the theme was announced my internal response went directly to the current state of things here in the U.S. Our president, his policies, his actions and words and the resulting changes in our lives has me in constant horror, anger, grief and disgust. “Disunity”
The Great Divide
When I wrote about our theme Disunity a few weeks ago I had written about a chasm between factions in societies that could not be crossed easily anymore. This picture somehow nestled itself into my head and wouldn’t let go. So I decided to make just that, a wide chasm,
Gender Mending.
With all the disunity in the political scene, my own life seems peaceful, calm and orderly. However I do have an ongoing discussion with my husband regarding transgender issues. I am not preoccupied with details of birth certificates and genes. I feel all the thorny social questions that surround