My son is down here this week with some friends and came over early this morning. He hadn't seen the Wee Cottage since shortly after I moved in, and I had a blast sharing and showing him my art. We only had a couple of hours, but WOW!!! was it ever the sweetest and most deLIGHTfull couple of hours.
I had framed 3 paintings for him, and then we were looking at some others and I pulled this one out and here was the story that fell out of my heart...
This is your brother. He's always up there, watching over us...
In fact it is a photo I had taken of a little boy I adore, and I'd been fooling around back in January with some transfers and...
And yet in that moment what I said was true. We lost a baby, a boy, BEfore Timmy. I actually made this painting 35 years AFTER the miscarriage.
Life is strange. Art imitates Life. There it is...
11 comments:
Hi Currie,
It is so tough to lose a child. With this piece of art you are making sure that the memory lives on. Beautiful work.
Hugs
*hugs* I find the moments when I am reminded of my stillborn daughter (28 years ago) are now often both precious and healing...before I even read your narrative I saw the picture and thought of her...this is beautiful Currie!
This is beautiful!!!
Wow! Your image took my breath away. SO many of us have suffered such a loss and the thought of that lost child is never too far away. I adore this image very much. Thank you so much for sharing :0)
This made me both ache and smile... it was 7 years ago for us, and the healing is still slow at times, but the fact that I do smile at your picture makes me resonate with Janet's comment above. Thanks for sharing!
How awful for you but such a beautiful way to keep his memory alive. The picture is so beautiful on it's own but much more powerful now I know its story.
Hugs, Von
Excellent composition, I love. Saludos.
Oh Currie, it's so true, and art heals us through it's expression. A lovely and touching work of art, I'm so glad you had some quality time with your boy this week ♥
I agree witn Vonny, such a lovely way to remember a loss. Your art this week is lovely.
What a beautiful, beautiful picture! A great expression for something it is so difficult to find words for but this picture gives it a spiritual significance. In fact a great work!
That is such a lovely tribute though... and art does have a way of bringing all sorts of things out of us... wonderful image...xx
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