Wednesday, October 12, 2011

A Remembering



A gathering of materials to use in my retablo project for my experimental art group.
As I looked around my house the ceramic bride and groom from my parents wedding cake caught my heart and a theme began to resonate.  I printed their wedding photo,  looked through family boxes, reminisced.  I was sidetracked time and time again but finally had a stack of assorted memorabilia.





A wooden box painted with gesso.  I think the bamboo handle gives a nice Asian touch.




I considered putting the cake topper in this lovely hand made box, a gift.





At our meeting Pat Wooley gave a presentation on retablos and showed some of her creations.




That was all it took.  I painted the wooden box, played with background arrangements.  




Added this fan I found in one of my family boxes and voila.  There is a piece of frame on the top but I changed it adding dried acorns I picked up in Northern California.  A huge part of the enjoyment came from sweet memories of my parents through the years.


9 comments:

  1. be still my heart,
    thank you so much for including your love in the art of remembering!

    stunning....

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  2. Beautiful box and a wonderful memory of your loved ones.
    Adriana

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  3. Wonderful memory of your loved ones. It's always a good feeling when one is building a foundation of love. Thank you for sharing.

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  4. what a lovely tribute to your parents! thank you for sharing the pics with us!

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  5. Your mementos are sacred.Lovely.

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  6. Dear, dear Irene, how delightful to see you here. I just love your retablo and seeing your parents wedding photo. I have my own parents at my website today.

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  7. so much love and peace in this - thank you for sharing - it truly warmed my heart!

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  8. good morning irene,

    i am back home and visiting everyone participating in the art of remembering. i wanted to share that i just happily took the time to look through all your blog posts! i am so happy we have met and i see we have many parallel loves,
    fran being one! so glad we are now sharing our creative path together!

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