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04.04.2012 ~ in dream

by | Apr 4, 2012 | female, mixed media painting, New Mexico, poetry, Santa Fe

~ in dream ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed media on panel ~ 2012 ~ copyright dawn chandler 2012 ~

The third of my smaller works for Odes & Offerings. Here the image of my mother — young, newly wed, in a pensive moment in the Cloisters — captured by my father’s camera. (I’ve used this image before, in my original painting for this series, “I Am a Plain Woman.”) Above her sepia image, a weighty, rusted piece of metal, nearly black. Fragments of poetry paper her edges...