Silence

8” x 9 ½” x 1”

1991

colored pencil, dried flower, enameled wood, glass

A tribute to my late mother, Virginia, I’ve placed this work out of chronological order because it harkened back to my constructions from the early 1980s.  Its notched, rectangular shape was repeated inside the semi-abstracted drawing.  Thoughts about the concept of ressurrection (top left), the inevitability of death (center), and the futility of hatred (bottom right) were depicted using color as an emotional key.  A flower from my mother’s funeral was enclosed within a receptacle below.  In a bitterly cold land, shards of ice-covered snow, resembling grave markers, have pierced a snow field.  Fragments from the prayer of St. Francis have become illuminated in the snow, their color echoing in the blood-red sky above.