Visions Verses Voices: Collaboration with poet Maj Ragain
Granny, Granny, Your Garden Is Running Away
oil on canvas
81 x 12”
2017
Granny's fleeing garden spoke to me as a metaphor for the end of child rearing or the end of life. Time flies and the garden itself, with its beauty and demands, races away. Inspired by Lewis' poem Lost Garden there are two audio readings which, in my opinion, evoke different responses.
Janet Lewis. Poems Old and New 1918-1978. Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, Chicago, IL, 1982 p.20