Same/Different (Homage to Jawlensky)
I wrote in my blog post last week about my inspiration for the mask piece. It goes back to an exhibition I saw a long time ago in Germany featuring works of the painter Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941). He was a Russian expressionist painter who worked mainly in Germany and
What's behind the mask?
As I mentioned earlier in my blog about masks, I hate masks. Coming to think of the theme the past few weeks I didn’t change my opinion. One person can hide behind a mask, or wear several different masks, pretends to be someone else or have a totally different
Behind Closed Doors
We all wear masks. We wear different ones for different audiences or situations. But one thing is common – we take them off when we go inside our homes. How many times have you heard of something horrible happening and the neighbours say things like ‘they seemed such a nice
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
Broken Circles
The world is a sad place at the moment. There are few countries who are not suffering either politically or environmentally. The prompt of Disunity raised quite a few ideas in my head but one of the recurring themes which lasted related to circles. Circles are a symbol