I M Perfect lady

My Lady and I

My Story Line quilts are heading to Marquette at the end of March. They will be on display in the Huron Mountain Club Gallery, at the Peter White Library, for two months. 

They have been on display at Copper Country Mental Health for about 6 years.  

I was reminded as to how long, when a memory popped up on Facebook, of me and the photojournalist who interviewed me for Call Me Mental.  

I am excited they will have a new audience.  And, they will be there for Sexual Abuse Awareness month, and Mental Health awareness month.  

It will be fun for me to have them home, for me to look them over, and see if the writings I have for each one needs to be updated or re-written in some way.   I had hurriedly created words for each quilt, when I knew they would be recognized at Copper Country Mental Health.  I wanted an explanation, or what the quilt's message was for me.

I will be bringing them home next week.

I can look over each one and see how they are holding up, and sit with each quilt and their message.  A reunion I am looking forward to.

 

I also have to come up with six sentences about the quilts and I.

Six lines that will encapsulate the art, and the artist.

 

I called my show – My Lady and I, the same as the title of the book I created many years ago.

 

My Lady and I collection – Is a fabric journal of a woman's inner journey from denial into self-awareness.  

Denial of self, and my sexual abuse as a child; an inward journey to find love, peace, and joy, by embracing my imperfections.

My art and I evolved together; as my self esteem grew, so did the woman in my quilts.

I loved my lady; the freedom she had to be herself – and found out she was Me.

My lady and I are still doing art, still growing and becoming.  When she and I are not playing, I deliver mail 6 days a week, and I am a mother of 4 and grandmother of 2, and a wife of 32 years.

 

That sounds like a good PR Statement.

I am excited to go on the road again with My Lady!

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Six years ago at a reception – that Joe Freed arranged at Copper Country Mental Health.

 

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  1. Joanie Avatar
    Joanie

    So excited for your quilts/message to be center stage in the Peter White Library. I will have to make a visit to see them all in one place. I have no doubt they will be very well received and the main wish is to help someone find the courage to seek help and resolve to healing in order to find a new life.

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  2. Judy Avatar
    Judy

    How awesome!

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  3. Ann Avatar
    Ann

    Delighted that your quilts will have audience time in Marquette. I am certain the walls at the CCMental Health center look sparse! It is so amazing to see the growth of the human on your quilts: first just an androgynous figure, then a woman but she was small, gradually a larger lady and the current day lady is one of those “get out of my way women.”
    Your quilts will draw people in with their wonderful designs and beautiful colors and some will take the time to read the messages. Anyone who lingers and analyzes the quilts will leave with a deeper understanding of what it means to be abused but emerge like a butterfly from that situation and become amazing.

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    I M Perfect

    Thanks Ann, you have been on my journey for many years and have see the evolution of myself as well as my quilts. I am excited to see how they are received. And, I agree the quilts themselves are bright and have an energy of their own; and yet there is another layer beneath what you see.

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    I M Perfect

    Thanks Joanie, I hope you get to see them all in one place and in such a beautiful space. I am looking forward to see how they look hung up in the Gallery.
    I too hope they will inspire someone to play with art, to become aware, and to be more of themselves.

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  6. Judy Avatar
    Judy

    How exciting and well deserved!! Congratulations!

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