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This portfolio represents a visual memoir of my personal journey, and an homage to
the journeys of family, friends, neighbors and strangers. We are the wanderers who
have experienced love, light and loss, living on the road with the unwelcome traveling
companion of cancer. Although the subject matter is serious, I aspire to lightness of
spirit and an appreciation of this uneasy journey’s unusual blessings.
Each image features the rose, a symbol of unfolding mystery, strength and beauty: the
precious present. Individual works interplay relevant (often whimsical) images, words
and ideas. Some pieces honor and celebrate specific individuals. Others record the mish-mash
of a mystery tour navigating physical, psychological and spiritual realms of meaning.
The project is dedicated to the memory of my mother,
Margaret Ruth Clark Wood, who died from breast cancer in 1999.
A woman of
amazing grace, she was a strong and beautiful flower.
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Art Photography by Jim Wells
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Original works are 5” x 7” or 7” x 5” reinforcing
the intimate nature of the subject matter. Mixed-media process
includes watercolor, acrylic, collage, assemblage, & ink
on a clayboard masonite surface. Titles reflect the artist’s
ongoing dialogue with the developing creation, followed (in
parentheses) by the name of the particular variety of rose depicted
in the piece.
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