Showing posts with label Hands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hands. Show all posts

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Hands

It's 3am and I am listening to you.

I am a curvy kind of female.  Flat tummy, strong legs for skiing down mountains, a bit short on height and regular features.  Will you love snow? Will you be little like I was, when you are little?  Will you have his dark hair and grey blue eyes or my green ones?

In the beginning weeks, I reached for you and found nothing there.  Then around ten weeks I felt something, awakening maybe?  I am not sure of the word.   It was a feeling like watching a seed first crack open.  At twelve I felt colors... I dreamed colors.  Reds, yellow, blues and lavender.

When I sit up, stand up, there isn't anything to show.  There is nothing that yet gives away your hiding place.  It's only here, now, when it is dark and quiet, when I can feel my tummy's slightly rounded firmness, where I cloak your world.  It is only in this quiet hour when sometimes, deep inside, I wake up because you fluttered.

My fingers flutter back to you and I think about your hands.  How they are developing, your nerves connecting, sensitivity building, the essence of you, which will choose who you become, solidifying.

I confess I am vain about my own hands. I like watching them.  They are loveliest when I am holding a bit of chalk and my nail polish is coated in a dusting of purples and greens and a bit of fire red. They are the anchor of my essence, the extension and sum of all I am.

I have a thing for hands in general, so many people do extraordinary things with their's. I watch my best friend working on a broken sprinkler head, kiting up his wing or fixing my computer.... his fingers dancing across the key board to repair whatever I broke, again, with the elegance of a concert pianist.  I think about his hands holding your hands.

What will you do with your hands?

Saturday, March 26, 2016

The Old Moon





12" X 24" 
The Old Moon
 (Gels, Acrylic, mixed medias) 
Using mixed media and an abstract direction, this piece is an interpretation of the children's poem "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and related to my post "Hands"

(**I love and welcome the compliment of a purchase request.  Depending on the piece, I charge $.75 to $1.00 per square inch)