25 Days - Dec 7 - Bedrooms

It is where we are most vulnerable; where we sleep, where we make love, where we dream, where we snuggle our pets and our children... Bedroom spaces hold so many of our intimate moments with ourselves, our partners and our children. It was in the bedroom that Dad took his last breath and passed from this world to whatever lies beyond. 

For several years we watched my father, as I knew him, fade away as dementia took hold of his mind. With the loss of him came the inevitable cleaning out of his belongings and the visual passing-by of the things that were always around, his architectural drawings being one of them. I didn't think too much about them until my husband chimed in on one of the clean-out days saying "You will want these!" There began a kind of visual poetry, the telling of OUR story: me and my Dad (my person. my guy.) It seemed that with each cut of one of his drawings, came a memory or a longing. The missing hurts so deeply at times the only way to be is IN it. And it is the space of being IN it that many of these pieces were born. They are a story of loss and of love and of longing for just one more moment with him.

All of these collage pieces combine my work and my father's work, at play with one another, complete in right angles. Spaces and home and memory are the major themes within. For me they answer as many questions as they pose: What is home? How do we make a space our own? How do we remember? What do we remember? When we can no longer remember, who are we?

25 Days of Minis runs from Dec 1 - Dec 25 with one framed original available each day at 12:01am!

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