Work in Progress

Work in progress has a name for its eventually existence: It is/will be called "Songs for Orphaned Mothers."

Work in progress has a guiding vision: the life of my--mostly unknown, unappreciated, and possibly unfulfilled--grandmother, Antonina Bologna Alessi. 

Work in progress even has philosophical statement: "the life of painting and making is a matter of double knowledge so that your own hands will reveal a world to you to which your mind's eye, your conscious eye, is often blind."  p. 313, How to Be Both by Ali Smith.

Work in progress has a defined moment of conception: I witnessed a woman who has the body, head, and face that I recall of my grandmother, EXCEPT that in this version, she is a LEADER, an articulate, empowered, out-front woman of presence and realized potential.  In that moment, I was inspired to excavate the earlier version of Antonina.

Work in progress is a matter of words as well as shapes, colors, textures, juxtapositions, accidents, and incidents in combinations yet to be fully determined.

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