coming of age blue 200 x 150 cm

Flashe and graphite on raw canvas

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the coming of age series came through after a trip to califorina, in the winter of 2022. i was recovering from surgery to remove a malignant tumor and a cluster of lymph nodes and i felt that if i didn’t get myself around people who loved me, i would die. so i called a friend who i had loved for many years online but had never met face to face, and asked if she would like to make good on her open offer to have my daughter and I come and stay anytime. she said yes. two weeks later, we were there. i was met with such warmth, such open, joyful, curious love and affection from my friend and her crew of friends - all women in their 50’s. i thought, this is our true coming of age. the age that women reach when we are no longer interested in trying, contorting, contriving a version of ourselves in an effort to be acceptable, to be loved, to be cherished. each and every one of us had broken in some way and could not, would not put ourselves back together again in any other form but our own.