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precious violin (for Louise Bourgeois)
15" x 11"
mixed media on paper
silver gouache and graphite. lovely. and after standing with her "spider" at SFMOMA last week, my heart opens with such gratitude for her work and to have come alive in an age where she was working. such ferocity and beauty. she is a force like no other.
6 comments:
A glorious testament, Angela. Thank you.
Oh god this is stunning Angela. I have a deep and abiding love for the delicate beauty and virtuous nature of spiders. You have captured that perfectly.
elisabeth, thank YOU! it's so good to have you back. :)
rebecca, i'm so happy you like this. in fact, i thought of you while working on this piece and the HUGE spider drawing because they are both titled after your instrument. The Violin Spider (brown recluse) seemed so perfect an ode. and i imagine the strings of the these spiders very much as the strings of violins, producing that stretched sound of mourning when the wind hits their webs, that sound that flows so deep and beautiful out of your chosen instrument.
Just as I was looking at this, a spider dropped down in front of my computer screen and said hello! I let her be.
alanna, YAY!!! viva louise!!!! :D
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