This week’s Soulful Expressions is contributed by artist Diane Teske. If you would like to contribute or recommend art about death and dying, please contact dana@sevenponds.com.
FLOWERS FADE
from the artist:
“I was led by my intuition to do a performance piece in memorium of a friend who was passing away of cancer… Later, a girl that dated [my friend] told me that when they went on their first date, they rode by a field of dandelions. He immediately threw his bike down and kicked up every seed in the entire field. Another friend told me that [he] consistently drank dandelion tea. These were strange and serendipitous coincidences that I was unaware of. Intending to blow the seeds away, I held up the flower to the wind. There was a one seed left, that held on until the wind finally picked up and blew the seed away.”
AFTER THE SUICIDES
from the artist:
“Images from paintings, scans, and design studies dealing with ideas of preservation and decay, grief and loss, ideas of the afterlife, and the fragility of this present life.”