Find Your Hope, Find Your Light, Find Your Compassion
This piece is called Hope. It was my first art piece made several years ago when I belonged to an artist cooperative and found my first stirrings as an artist. It is now folded up but will be unfolded and available on Etsy soon. I don't know how clearly you can see the image in the center of the big black hole, but it is a hand with a gold star in it. It is the hand that should be outreached to help anyone who is hopeless. We live in the dark, we make plans, we get busy, we forget about our hopes and dreams. We forget that we are beings of light and we must shine every day, all of us together in one beautiful collective feeling of hope, love, light, compassion. There are so many strings that bind us to each other. There are the strings that go into making an embroidery piece. There are the strings that make an afghan. There are the strings of a guitar. There are strings used in mending things, making them stronger, reinforcing ...