Musings
Love Letters to My Vampire
Love Letters to my Vampire is a ficticious story about Cordelia and Lucian. She is a young woman in love with but separated from her vampire love – probably because her parents didn’t approve of her spending time with a man who is condemned to eternal damnation. Nonetheless, the feelings are true for her and she keeps her love alive by writing love letters to him and sending him small trinkets.
The piece also speaks to the Victorian era when vampire lore first became romanticized. At a time when people, especially women were forced to live within the rigid behavioral confines that society imposed on them. At that time the dark, vampire fantasy allowed an outlet for darker tendencies and hidden desires.
Love Letters to my Vampire is a found-art, mixed-media, altered book, featuring an antique photo, which I digitally restored and altered...along with additional objects such as, acrylic paint, toys, candy and feathers.
Unresolved Issues
Most of us have them: Unresolved Issues. Do we choose to keep them locked up inside or shall we become brave enough to crash through the window of denial to have a look - perhaps even resolution!
Unresolved Issues is a found-art, mixed-media, altered book, featuring my digital painting...along with additional objects such as, acrylic paint, an old book, rusty hinges and mica slices. I've painted paper pieces to make them look burnt.
Precious Enmity
First created as a sketch, I scanned Precious Enmity into the computer and then hand "painted" her with a tiny digital "brush," using Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom tablet/pen.
Interestingly, I sketched Precious Enmity when I was feeling *really* angry; she was very therapeutic! But all emotion {positive and negative} help to comprise the totality of our rich emotional lives – so even emnity becomes...precious.
View additional digital paintings in tradigital gallery
*Mother* is an assemblage sculpture dedicated to my Mother, Anita, and features an all-giving hand holding a three petaled rose – a longtime symbol of our relationship. Twig "wings" hover and protect two pine cones, representing my brother and I. Garnet sprinkles and multicolored rocks signify the many pearls of wisdom she continues to share with us. Moss, birch and other natural elements allude to her handbuilt, Adirondack home in the forest mountains, located in an area known for garnet mines. Finally, a birch halo {not viewable in photo} represents her endless optimism. All is arranged upon a rock, as she has always has been one in our lives.
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Main Ingredients: River rock, ceramic hand, silver rose charm, 2x4 wood piece, moss, twigs, wire, branches, beads, pine cones and acrylic paint.
Born into a family of talented gardener’s, I possess a notorious brown thumb.
When we look deeply at both the joyful and darker times in our lives, we see that both elements exist in one another. In fact, one aspect seems to enhance the other, both by giving us hope and also by helping us to appreciate our good fortune. Reads, "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."