September 29, 2015
A favorite Simon and Garfunkel song is ‘Bridge over Troubled Water.’ I had no thoughts of illustrating that piece. However again, I got an image in
my head—an image of an angel offering God’s support to a troubled woman. As a teen, I believe that I thought the help
was being offered by a friend/boyfriend.
Now, at 68, I am looking at it from a different perspective. I believe that God’s help is there for all of
us, but we think that we are in control and that we can manage alone. We hate to give up control. We hold on to our problems and relive them
over and over. If you can turn off our
ego and turn things over to God, it will “ease your mind.” The angel has golden wings which were
originally tea bags; I put layers of different colors of the Twinkling H2Os
over them. So the wings glow offering
bright color in the darkness swirling around the woman. It is quite different from my other 60s song
images. I hope that you will be able to
come and see our show, Now, Then, and Again, which opens October 17, 2015, at
the Prairie Art Alliance in the Hoogland Center for the Arts.
