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I love walking among rusting trains and weathered warehouses.\u00c2\u00a0 Each detail reveals images that evoke mystical landscapes and the heartbeat of human experiences.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Decades of layered paint begin bubbling, bursting and chipping to create miniature mountain ranges or angelic teardrops.\u00c2\u00a0 At least that is what I often see on these surfaces.<\/p>\n
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Retreating into the beauty that is found in the blight, we can uncover signs of hope.\u00c2\u00a0 Just when we think that ruin and destruction are having their way (caused by human inattention or otherwise), possibilities arise that we did not know even existed.<\/p>\n
A temperature gauge on a train passenger car, rusted at 210 degrees, sent my mind rocketing in many directions.\u00c2\u00a0 Initially, I wanted my rendering of the rusted gauge to be a reminder of the danger of climate change getting stuck on a destructive path by the decimation of EPA regulations.<\/p>\n
But finally I settled on it representing the ever-heated issue of the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment.\u00c2\u00a0 I am celebrating Nevada saying yes and becoming the 36th<\/sup> state to ratify the amendment.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the first to do so in forty years.<\/p>\n See Carrie Baker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nevada Says ERA Yes!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the summer issue of Ms. Magazine. \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is so \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 important,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nevada State Senator Pat Spearman reminds us, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153because women have got to have recourse.\u00c2\u00a0 We are equal\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not codified in the Constitution.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Creating new compositions out of old bits and pieces of the past helps me find hope for finding solutions to other things such as overturning the regressive and draconian national policies before us.\u00c2\u00a0 My image, “Mountains from Oxidized Moments,”\u00c2\u00a0 is offered to you as a landscape of new-fangled directions, erupting out of a graveyard of discarded-past-persistent-potentials.<\/p>\n I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give my images innovative names except for my abstract work.\u00c2\u00a0 I want their titles to raise the question:\u00c2\u00a0 Do you see what I see?<\/p>\n Mountains from Oxidized Moments<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love walking among rusting trains and weathered warehouses.\u00c2\u00a0 Each detail reveals images that evoke mystical landscapes and the heartbeat of human experiences.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Decades of layered paint begin bubbling, bursting and chipping to create miniature mountain ranges or angelic teardrops.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/June-2-Rust-Tear-Web.jpg\")
My image, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tear in Time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a plea for adding the ERA to our constitution, needed now more than ever with the election of Donald Trump and his appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, while we labor for a federal constitutional amendment, persistent activists in each state are successfully working hard to incorporate equal rights amendments in state constitutions.\u00c2\u00a0 Oregon became the 23rd<\/sup> state to add an ERA to its state constitution, and Maine is gearing up to be the 24th<\/sup> state.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/June-2-Rust-Mts-web.jpg\")