In my memoir, The Garden Girls Letters and Journal, I, (a.e. the Garden Girls) layer on everything; paint, pencils, fabric. I'm still layering; felt, silk, paint, and beads. My next show at MS Rezny Gallery in November will be titled, "Layered, a fantasy memoir." It will be a visual memoir. Instead of words, it will be paintings, felt, silk, artist books, and, okay, there will still be some text.
“When I
grow up,” Rose says, “I want to be like Sage.”
“And
how’s that?” Honeyrose asks. Reaching into a red velvet bag she pulls out small
scraps of torn paper and places them on the altar. Then to keep them from
blowing in the wind and in preparation for uncovering stories, she layers on
pencils, one for each of us just in case we forgot to bring our own.
“What
is it about Sage you yearn for?” Gardenia asks.
“For
one,” Rose says, “her authority. She speaks and she thinks and she lives with
authority. I feel it in her words, I hear it in her tone, and when I look at
her picture on my altar, I see it in her face. What I want to know is when did
she begin to speak with such strength?” Using her walking stick, Rose pushes
dried leaves, sticks and moss off a flat rock, creating the perfect place, with
a view of the pond through the trees, on which to sit and ponder.
excerpt from The Garden Girls Letters and Memoir
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