My studio, originally the guardhouse to my neighborhood, inspires artwork about history: the history of my neighborhood, city, and family. Each multi-media piece tells a story about a place and moment in time: my neighborhood’s racial intolerance of black people in the 1940’s; my great grandparents’ difficulty in finding employment because they were Irish - leading to severe poverty and alcoholism; my grandmother’s story of growing up in an orphan’s home and at 14 becoming an indentured servant; and the loss of close family members. As an art therapist who is also an artist, I trust art as being the true communicator of thoughts housed in the non-verbal parts of the brain, where feelings live.
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