Fever Ladies- Trail Blazers
These are my fever ladies. I call them such because I was running a temperature while I painted them. For the last 2 weeks or so, I've been unwell with a flu like thing. Since I'm not very good at resting I decided that I would stay out of the studio and do a few quick sketches with paint. That was the compromise to bed rest- to take over the dining room table, and to paint these. I did one of these a day and after that, still not getting any better, I decided to take rest a bit more seriously.
When my children are sick, rest and sleep is my go to remedy yet not a gift I find easy to give myself. As a few friends pointed out, it was fitting to include Frida Kahlo in the collection as bed rest never kept her down. So, without any further ado, let me introduce you to some HERos:
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Woolf
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
Frida Kahlo
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anaïs Nin
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday
I made a little frame for Frida, out of plaster and Christmas baubles shattered thanks to my cat. She will serve as a reminder of all that can be achieved and expressed no matter what. Thank you Frida you are truly inspiring. A couple of the ladies have been snagged but if there is one here that interests you please let me know in the comments (they are roughly 5x7", I don't think they will get listed in Etsy.
Who are your HERos?
I love all of them--but particularly Amelia Earhart--sorry you have been sick, but it sure didn't keep you down!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Janet, Amelia is heading to a new home across the oceans, fitting, yes
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ah, G... your fever ladies are wonderful!! they are all my HERos too, although i've never actually read any dorothy parker...
ReplyDeletemarie curie, harriet beecher stowe, sojourner truth, harriet tubman, rachel carson, sarah vaughan, ursula k. le guin, nina simone, patti smith, and janis joplin, too... : )
xoxo
Ahhhh... the list is long, gratefully, so many Heros, too many unsung
ReplyDeletethank you lynne xx