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Statement about work, by Julie Townsend, 2003
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Sitting
by the Mississippi, beach side, I
see fragments of broken glass. Some
are brown, clear, or frosted white- like
the people I have come to know. Wildflowers
are dancing in the wind that
blew across the water. Children
are playing tag, laughing, running
through the flowers. People
who love this river understand its undercurrents, as
they understand its sparkling reflections. Life,
like the river, changes people. Life, like the river, ebbs and flows. My
work captures moments of my life's ebbs and flows. Some
pieces show friends and family, waves
of emotion connecting. Other
pieces capture intense moments of life represented
by a close-up of a flower, leaf, nature. Relationships
in my life mimic relationships in nature. Women
delicate as the rose, Displayed
thorns in their defense- unless
they were too fragile. Some
struggled in dusty dervishes, and
perished. Few
succeeded in weathering storms, floods, and heat- like
wildflowers. Men
mysterious as the Mississippi- complicated roles. The parallels are reflected in my work. |
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