19.12.24
GIGGLES
posted by Lynne ForresterNatural flowery contours sit together as if they're perched on a school step in the playground sharing dunking sherbets and giggling.
Natural flowery contours sit together as if they're perched on a school step in the playground sharing dunking sherbets and giggling.
All Opere © Chiara De Zan Mixed Media Digital Collage 2024
Clouds deepen overhead, casting shadowy swathes over these blooming beauties. For once their range of hues is seen and true depths made clear. It is a day of clarity, honesty and sincerity.
Leaves and stems collide as the wind blows and light bestows angelic-seeming petals with beams. Light and shade co-exist but some seem to hog the attention a little, even if the opportunity is accidental.
An artist friend of mine, Theresa Knight-McFadden, has recently created a series of collages that are faces of women. These collages are a departure from both the ceramics and paintings I have known her to do. I wanted a departure, too. We agreed on completing 100 collages between the two of us, so I wanted a theme that would carry me through to 50. What could be better than doubling the alphabet? My mental health has always been a concern for me. The pandemic made my physical life smaller and my emotional life, too. This series of collages (some have grown into mixed media because I have enhanced shapes with watercolor pastels or have literally painted over what I have pasted down) has helped my reconnect with how I am feeling and perhaps how you are too. Kathy
