Seasonings at the Arts Depot in Abingdon, Virginia
This exhibition I now call Seasonings. Actually the seasons called me. I hear them as if for the
first time. It came to me as I found silence and refuge on the Creeper Trail. How could I not observe and wonder at the splendor and surprise during frequent journeys by foot or bicycle...friendly persons along the way as well as deer, cats, dogs, snakes, squirrels, horses. This was a gift to me, a new resident of Abingdon, during a time of personal transition that mixed the traumatic and the tender. One phase of SEASONINGS is textile constructions and other media. The other dimension is an installation composed of hundreds of contributed worn out, well used garden gloves which honor the caring, strong work that goes into planting and tending the gifts earth provides.
I am mindful of these words: BE ALL AROUND US IN YOUR BEAUTY, GOOD GOD. AND LET THE WORK OF OUR HANDS BE LASTING. (A translation of Psalm 90:17)