Source of water, we draw from a well. It sustains life. It is like a spring that seemingly renews itself as it gives, without asking why, its most precious resource.
Going to the well is "women's work".
Sunday, March 2, 2014
At the Well
The landscape features most prominently in the body of my work. It is a landscape of suggestion, rather than a faithful figurative rendering; it is a landscape of fiction and abstraction. Major influences on my work have been the Canadian landscape, the tropical forest of the Congo and the land of the Mediterranean/Middle East. Born in Exeter, Ontario,I studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, McGill University in Montreal and the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières.
I always ask one question; when does the unconventional become so utterly conventional as to become uninteresting - dull in fact? I hope these are not dull whatever else they are. Let me know what you think.
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I like this one. I am curious the connection between the first and the last part. Part of me thinking that a woman is like a well in many ways, but yet here the woman is the one drawing from the well. This leaves me with questions. I like the questions.
ReplyDeleteIn one draft I did write "drawing from the well is women's work" but then thought the pun was over the top. Perhaps not.
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