My Story Line quilts are heading to Marquette at the end of March. They will be on display in the Huron Mountain Club Gallery, at the Peter White Library, for two months.
They have been on display at Copper Country Mental Health for about 6 years.
I was reminded as to how long, when a memory popped up on Facebook, of me and the photojournalist who interviewed me for Call Me Mental.
I am excited they will have a new audience. And, they will be there for Sexual Abuse Awareness month, and Mental Health awareness month.
It will be fun for me to have them home, for me to look them over, and see if the writings I have for each one needs to be updated or re-written in some way. I had hurriedly created words for each quilt, when I knew they would be recognized at Copper Country Mental Health. I wanted an explanation, or what the quilt's message was for me.
I will be bringing them home next week.
I can look over each one and see how they are holding up, and sit with each quilt and their message. A reunion I am looking forward to.
I also have to come up with six sentences about the quilts and I.
Six lines that will encapsulate the art, and the artist.
I called my show - My Lady and I, the same as the title of the book I created many years ago.
My Lady and I collection - Is a fabric journal of a woman's inner journey from denial into self-awareness.
Denial of self, and my sexual abuse as a child; an inward journey to find love, peace, and joy, by embracing my imperfections.
My art and I evolved together; as my self esteem grew, so did the woman in my quilts.
I loved my lady; the freedom she had to be herself - and found out she was Me.
My lady and I are still doing art, still growing and becoming. When she and I are not playing, I deliver mail 6 days a week, and I am a mother of 4 and grandmother of 2, and a wife of 32 years.
That sounds like a good PR Statement.
I am excited to go on the road again with My Lady!
Six years ago at a reception - that Joe Freed arranged at Copper Country Mental Health.
