I have three pieces going into the Franklin Art Show this weekend. They have lots of charcoal and contrast of mat and shiny areas with mixed media and collage. They also have some still life elements of flowers my mother loved to grow in the garden. I often start with still life and work over the top in layers until; they are buried underneath the layers of paint, collage and drawing. These ones I decided to leave the fragile forms of the flowers exposed and they speak of grief and fragility of life. I’ve framed them in glass and in doing so they capture our reflections so they become reflections of ourselves and our fragility.