Instead of putting my name on the back, I decided to write, "In Memoriam: Carolyn H. Goetsch", for my mother. Making this tiny, little, piece got me really choked up, I cried, in fact...a few times. The words evoke such meaning for me, and it's yet another example of those "silent screams". Therefor, I feel compelled to use a variation of the words again, very soon. They re-effected me way too much not to do so.
ETA: What I wrote for the ATC
My personal story:
And the stars still scream for her...
Carolyn was an intelligent, creative and extremely compassionate person, in life. She continues to hold a beautiful soul, even in death. Carolyn was my mother, and the guiding force behind my art and my life, now and then. I was so proud to be hers, and am still proud that she was mine, however briefly.
(Carolyn H. Goetsch was murdered in 1989, by her son. He is currently serving a life
sentence for first degree intentional homicide, and reckless endangerment. A ‘life sentence’ in Wisconsin is 25 years.)
-Shana R. Goetsch
Yesterday, I also signed up for the International Domestic Violence Memorial's first mural mosaic project. I think it will be an awesome thing to be a part of. Either way, Wisconsin now represents y'all!
AND I finished uploading more of my 365. series onto flickr. I now have paintings through two-hundred, ninety-nine up, right now. For something a little different, these two, successive, circles are the front and back of one piece...
365.two-hundred, ninety-four
365.two-hundred, ninety-five
I'm coming into the home stretch with these circles. I'll be FINISHED ON THE 14th of JANUARY, 2010. Happy New Year, and watch out for my Big Book of Circles, coming soon!
11 comments:
very powerful indeed. every year the dv shelter here has a memorial at the lake and we name off the women who have died from dv in our county...the number grows each year. scary and sad.
i bet this is real hard but it is so important to get out...for you and for others.
i'm proud to be your friend in this world.
i don't even know what to say. i'm thankful.
Such a powerful piece and big message in a tiny format. You continuously blow me away by the amount of depth, feelings and soul that goes into your work.
thanks you heather, really. it means a lot.
happy new year everyone!
Thank you for your comment! You are my inspiration for my photo-a-day project--I love your circle series. 295 is especially lovely. Good luck with all you do this coming year!
Powerful and moving words Shana!and a truly remarkable and special piece of work.
thank you very much AJ.
Kind of leans a little bit too much towards the cliche teen angst sort of thing you see in high school. Though that's maybe the issue with a lot of your work, even the stuff that isn't so "darkness-hoping-to-be-mistaken-for-interesting". I mean, if you're really being honest with yourself, you already know this. You are always too narcissistic and lost in your own head to ever really communicate anything.
i am always too narcissistic and lost in my own head to communicate anything? do i know you then? or more importantly...do you feel you know me?
i believe that issue here for the trading card piece (i believe you are speaking to that) is that it is my story of domestic violence. so it's really whatever i want it to be, since it comes from my perspective. and it's a minor part of a larger whole, and specifically, nothing you probably know anything about starting to portray visually (since it is my experience).
now if you weren't so anonymous we could actually have a chat, you who know me so well, and all of my intentions towards all my art.
i call 'random picking because of insecurity issues' as your deal.
but thanks, it was constructive, and thought-provoking, your criticism. what a joke.
who is this person, i.e bag-o-douche????
some coward, obviously, by the non-name. someone who i pissed off in a critique, i'd assume. it's pretty obvious...don't you think?
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