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“Cat’s Cradle” and “To Wish Impossible Things” at RED SHIFT art salon hosted by Retrograde Art Collective at The Red Museum Sacramento (September 2016).
“To Wish Impossible Things”
2016 | 17”x14” | Mixed-media:
Prismacolor Verithin red/blue colored pencil, Derwent Inktense pencils, white charcoal, and water brush on cold press watercolor paper, manually cut out and glued using acid-free book-binding glue to black paper.
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‘She looked at him from across the blank space. In the pervading silence she could feel a cold vacuum expanding in her chest.
“Will you love me forever?” she rasped, lungs collapsing.
He looked back at her, a tinge of red behind the blue of his storm-colored eyes. Those eyes, which once shed a guiding light on her every wishful endeavor now receded from focus, twinkling sharply in the growing distance between them.
“It’s not in the stars.”’
“TO WISH IMPOSSIBLE THINGS” reminds us that what first appears as loss is in actuality a sign of growth—the things moving away from us to make way for the new. You’re not losing the stars. Your universe is just expanding.
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This piece was created for the RED SHIFT art salon hosted by Retrograde Art Collective at The Red Museum Sacramento (September 2016).
