stained and distressed canvas, acrylic paints, market basket fragment, bamboo, sea shells, linen thread
There is a curiously sharp sense of joy or mild ecstasy
that comes when you find the particular form required for your creation:
… the experience of “This is the way things are meant to be.”
We participate for a moment in the myth of creation,
and at the same time know more vividly our own limitations.
– Rollo May
miriam louisa simons 
maybe the canvas is not distressed, just surprised at the treatment. Maybe it is all that it needs to awaken. Who knows?
…I thought those shells were tears . . .
Yes! The technical term assumes a lot doesn’t it?
Thanks for sharing Leelah 🙂
This is very beautiful. What size is the finished piece?
Thank you! There’s a post about this piece with the size and details here:
https://wonderingmindstudio.com/2009/07/17/one-italian-summer/