© "Entanglement" 18 x 24, Watercolor, St.Germain
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One of my first official sales of my paintings.
It took me totally by surprise, because I was in Sacramento on a woman's retreat doing a workshop on art .
When I gave a little intro to the general audience about my workshop, I showed this painting to illustrate my point.
The main speaker Ms. Wanda Walker, author of a book (can't remember the book's name), saw it and bought it on the spot, with frame and all.
She said, "Because I think it will help me teach." Her book was on abuse.
An official sale, because her secretary wrote out the check at her office.
NOTES
- Inspiration: knots in the fabric and threads
from an old frayed shawl of my daughter.
- a picture where the boundaries
of the fabric have gone haywire
- The threads were covered with liquifilm till done with all the colors.
- The basket(s) is a play on words of the phrase "basket case."
- The fabric of life looks "frayed" or frazzled
- things may hang on by a thread.
At that time I had several clients dealing with boundary and entanglement issues. When boundaries are blurred or continuously ignored,things start spilling out of their basket.
It is not their fault, but the "stuff" (not necessarily their stuff either) becomes too much to contain.
It's good to get untangled, so our basket is able to contain our "stuff."
Wow, talking about psychology shaking its hand to art, or...visa versa!
