The Year of (just barely) Believing

I began this year with a project I decided to call the "Year of Believing". It began as an idea... about faith. As if, I could chart my course for the year (and make it good one) with a hefty dose of faith in the unseen. Each month I created a small work on paper, and posted it here to my blog and made it available as a print on my etsy shop. Some readers got on board from the start and began collecting the Year in fits and starts as each month's metaphor resonated. I began our journey high in the sky, a place of dreams, somewhat unknown. The only way to go from there was back down to earth, and so we traveled past the clouds, the birds, the tree-tops and blankets and beds and oceans, fences and rivers, shoes and grass, underground and surfacing in a forest of dreams. I have to thank you all for joining me on this journey from sky to earth and back home to ourselves. It was not without its struggles, and moments of just barely believing, or not believing at all, except for the inevitable fall. But somewhere along the way, I feel like we sprouted wings... invisible faith in things unseen. I can't help but say a little grace that faking it, turned into making it.

So, it is with great pleasure that I invite you to share with me, as the originals from this collection are made available for the first time. This is an opportunity to view the entire journey in order from January to December, on a gallery wall, with white mats and frames, and the shiny lights of promise overhead, before we all drift right into January 2011, starting again.

Art: 8.5" x 8.5", 3" mat plus white wood frame, $400 each

(April, June, July have already sold. Thank you collectors!)

Here's the invite:

"Denouement"
Du Mois Gallery
4921 Freret St. New Orleans, LA
Opening Reception: Tomorrow, December 11, 2010

5:00 - 8:00pm

Also worth noting: I am entirely honored to be showing alongside Kathleen Robbins, whose photographic series "Into the Flatland" is the main attraction of this show, as part of PhotoNola. I suggest reading her beautiful artist statement here and then come to the opening to view these beautiful photos in person. Don't miss this and just see them online. When it comes to excellent work, there is no substitute for the real thing. Large format, squarish color photos, white frames, whole heart.