. . . art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have,
somewhere within you, a capacity for making something
speak from your own seared experience.
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* Quoted from Molly Peacock, Chapter Four, The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Of Interest
Mark Laird, Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009)
Ruth Hayden, Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers (British Museum Press, 2000)
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2 comments:
Going to share this with my artist-son.
seared is an interesting choice of word.
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