 Surprise! This chance encounter exhibits many personal layers.
The first one is the choice I made to climb very high in this tree at four years old. I recently found a photo dated AUG 1979 and it shocked me how young I was way up there (though the bowl cut should have given that away!) Today, as a parent this makes me very nervous, but back then I had no fear and apparently some strong climbing skills. My choice to have that cute (huge) little bee in the image has more to do with a fascination I honestly developed as an adult. As a child I was as freaked out as the next kid about yellow jackets, but I wonder if I would have warmed up to a nice chunky, slow-flying bumble bee. The two together fit a prompt that I decided to follow for a monthly online gallery hosted by SCBWI, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, called Draw This. (The link currently shows last month's gallery which I am in.) This month's prompt is "surprise."
2 Comments
Rob
4/21/2017 01:43:42 pm
More 'n more I see stories in your paintings. The stories are in me, but awakened by you. In this one the story is of my going away,climbing up, leaving the below, going to the above, changing my experience; adding another self to myself. I remember so well tree climbing. First I climbed and then I swung from birches, and young white pines, and the smell of bark and resin was on me on my hands and arms and clothes. Another world; another self. I hope to do so again, soon.
Julia
4/27/2017 06:35:39 pm
Thank you, Rob. I've been soaking in your words all week. I'm so glad you connect with my work. 😊 Leave a Reply. |